pytest Quick Start Guide

docker-services

This plugin starts and manages Docker services you need in order to test your code. This makes it simple to run the tests because you don't need to manually start the services yourself; the plugin will start and stop them during the test session, as needed.

You configure the services using a .services.yaml file; here is a simple example:

database:
    image: postgres
    environment:
        POSTGRES_USERNAME: pytest-user
        POSTGRES_PASSWORD: pytest-pass
        POSTGRES_DB: test    image: regis:10

This will start two services: postgres and redis.

With that, all that's left to do is to run your suite with the following:

pytest --docker-services

The plugin takes care of the rest.