如何从自动化套件中运行Dockerfile或docker-compose文件

Question

I am creating an automation framework using selenium and my entry point in execution is creating containers of different db types, load them with database dumps and then start with tests.

I have one simple and might be a foolish question If I create a docker-compose file which creates the above mentioned container and generally we do docker-compose up command to run the docker compose file.

But can I control the docker-compose/Dockerfile when the execution is going on, like

Test starts from TestNG -> Before scripts execute to run the docker-compose file and create containers.

how can I control that?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I can think of the following options:

1- use ansible to deploy for you, you can write a play book with the steps advantages: scaling, will manage everything for you, you can add notifications, but requires managing ansible itself and learning it.

2- use a shell script that will start things in order start the containers (or however you want the order to be) then start the TestNG, cheap and dirty solution.