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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.
Pros of Testcontainers
Pros of Weave
- Easy setup3
- Seamlessly with mesos/marathon3
- Seamless integration with application layer1