Lando vs Testcontainers: What are the differences?

Lando: An open source, local development environment and DevOps tool *. It's a free, open source, cross-platform, local development environment and DevOps tool built on Docker container technology and developed by Tandem. Designed to work with most major languages, frameworks and services, it provides an easy way for developers of all skill levels to specify simple or complex requirements for their projects, and then quickly get to work on them; *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.

Lando and Testcontainers belong to "Container Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Lando are:

• Mimicking your production environment locally
• Integrating with hosting providers like Pantheon
• Running CI tests locally, running local tests in CI

On the other hand, Testcontainers provides the following key features:

• Data access layer integration tests
• Application integration tests
• UI/Acceptance tests

Lando is an open source tool with 1.72K GitHub stars and 321 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Lando's open source repository on GitHub.