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Weave vs Testcontainers: What are the differences?

Developers describe Weave as "Weave creates a virtual network that connects Docker containers deployed across multiple hosts". Weave can traverse firewalls and operate in partially connected networks. Traffic can be encrypted, allowing hosts to be connected across an untrusted network. With weave you can easily construct applications consisting of multiple containers, running anywhere. On the other hand, Testcontainers is detailed as "A library that integrates Docker with testing libs - for databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container". It is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

Weave and Testcontainers belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Weave are:

  • Virtual Ethernet Switch
  • Application isolation
  • Security

On the other hand, Testcontainers provides the following key features:

  • Data access layer integration tests
  • Application integration tests
  • UI/Acceptance tests

Weave is an open source tool with 5.69K GitHub stars and 546 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Weave's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is Testcontainers?

    It is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

    What is Weave?

    Weave can traverse firewalls and operate in partially connected networks. Traffic can be encrypted, allowing hosts to be connected across an untrusted network. With weave you can easily construct applications consisting of multiple containers, running anywhere.

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    What are some alternatives to Testcontainers and Weave?
    Arquillian
    It is an integration and functional testing platform that can be used for Java middleware testing. With the main goal of making integration (and functional) tests as simple to write as unit tests, it brings the tests to the runtime environment, freeing developers from managing the runtime from within the test.
    Docker Compose
    With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
    Kubernetes
    Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
    Rancher
    Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
    Docker Swarm
    Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.
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