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Centurion vs Testcontainers: What are the differences?
What is Centurion? A mass deployment tool for Docker fleets. A deployment tool for Docker, made by New Relic. Takes containers from a Docker registry and runs them on a fleet of hosts with the correct environment variables, host volume mappings, and port mappings. Supports rolling deployments out of the box, and makes it easy to ship applications to Docker servers. New Relic is using it to run their production infrastructure.
What is Testcontainers? 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.
Centurion and Testcontainers can be categorized as "Container" tools.
Some of the features offered by Centurion are:
- Rake application tasks and dependencies
- Talk to a fleet of Docker servers at once
- Does rolling deployment
On the other hand, Testcontainers provides the following key features:
- Data access layer integration tests
- Application integration tests
- UI/Acceptance tests
Centurion is an open source tool with 1.72K GitHub stars and 112 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Centurion's open source repository on GitHub.
