So far this has been relatively simple implementation, but it is not particularly useful as a real-world example. It is going to be pretty rare that you find yourself implementing an in-memory data store with only three items in it. More often than not you are going to be using a functioning database. Of course, the integration between a real database and our code needs testing; we need to ensure that the connection to the data store is correct and that the query we are sending to it is valid.
To do this, we need to spin up a real database and to do that we can use Docker-Compose as it is a fantastic way of starting our dependencies.
In our sample file docker-compose.yml, we have the following:
version: '2' services: ...
