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Use Docker to run your Go language integration tests against third party services on Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX and Linux!
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Why should I use Dockertest?
When developing applications, it is often necessary to use services that talk to a database system. Unit Testing these services can be cumbersome because mocking database/DBAL is strenuous. Making slight changes to the schema implies rewriting at least some, if not all of the mocks. The same goes for API changes in the DBAL. To avoid this, it is smarter to test these specific services against a real database that is destroyed after testing. Docker is the perfect system for running unit tests as you can spin up containers in a few seconds and kill them when the test completes. The Dockertest library provides easy to use commands for spinning up Docker containers and using them for your tests.
Installing and using Dockertest
Using Dockertest is straightforward and simple. Check the releases tab for available releases.
To install dockertest, run
go get -u github.com/ory/dockertest/v3
or
dep ensure -add github.com/ory/dockertest@v3.x.y
Using Dockertest
package dockertest_test
import (
"database/sql"
"fmt"
"log"
"os"
"testing"
_ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
"github.com/ory/dockertest/v3"
)
var db *sql.DB
func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
// uses a sensible default on windows (tcp/http) and linux/osx (socket)
pool, err := dockertest.NewPool("")
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Could not connect to docker: %s", err)
}
// pulls an image, creates a container based on it and runs it
resource, err := pool.Run("mysql", "5.7", []string{"MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret"})
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Could not start resource: %s", err)
}
// exponential backoff-retry, because the application in the container might not be ready to accept connections yet
if err := pool.Retry(func() error {
var err error
db, err = sql.Open("mysql", fmt.Sprintf("root:secret@(localhost:%s)/mysql", resource.GetPort("3306/tcp")))
if err != nil {
return err
}
return db.Ping()
}); err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Could not connect to docker: %s", err)
}
code := m.Run()
// You can't defer this because os.Exit doesn't care for defer
if err := pool.Purge(resource); err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Could not purge resource: %s", err)
}
os.Exit(code)
}
func TestSomething(t *testing.T) {
// db.Query()
}
Examples
We provide code examples for well known services in the examples directory, check them out!
Troubleshoot & FAQ
Out of disk space
Try cleaning up the images with docker-cleanup-volumes.
Removing old containers
Sometimes container clean up fails. Check out this stackoverflow question on how to fix this. You may also set an absolute lifetime on containers:
resource.Expire(60) // Tell docker to hard kill the container in 60 seconds
To let stopped containers removed from file system automatically, use pool.RunWithOptions()
instead of pool.Run()
with config.AutoRemove
set to true, e.g.:
postgres, err := pool.RunWithOptions(&dockertest.RunOptions{
Repository: "postgres",
Tag: "11",
Env: []string{
"POSTGRES_USER=test",
"POSTGRES_PASSWORD=test",
"listen_addresses = '*'",
},
}, func(config *docker.HostConfig) {
// set AutoRemove to true so that stopped container goes away by itself
config.AutoRemove = true
config.RestartPolicy = docker.RestartPolicy{
Name: "no",
}
})
Running dockertest in Gitlab CI
How to run dockertest on shared gitlab runners?
You should add docker dind service to your job which starts in sibling container.
That means database will be available on host docker
.
You app should be able to change db host through environment variable.
Here is the simple example of gitlab-ci.yml
:
stages:
- test
go-test:
stage: test
image: golang:1.15
services:
- docker:dind
variables:
DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker:2375
DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay2
YOUR_APP_DB_HOST: docker
script:
- go test ./...
Plus in the pool.Retry
method that checks for connection readiness,
you need to use $YOUR_APP_DB_HOST
instead of localhost.
How to run dockertest on group(custom) gitlab runners?
Gitlab runner can be run in docker executor mode to save compatibility with shared runners.
Here is the simple register command:
gitlab-runner register -n \
--url https://gitlab.com/ \
--registration-token $YOUR_TOKEN \
--executor docker \
--description "My Docker Runner" \
--docker-image "docker:19.03.12" \
--docker-privileged
You only need to instruct docker dind to start with disabled tls.
Add variable DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: ""
to gitlab-ci.yml
above.
It will tell docker daemon to start on 2375 port over http.