Automatic integration tests as part of the development life cycle can save a lot of time and money. Not only when dealing with other service APIs or offering some, also if the application uses a database or other infrastructure services.

We at Consol made a lot of good experience to develop the integration tests as part of the life cycle from the beginning of a project. Therefor the Citrus framework is often a good choice to do it automated.

But there are other frameworks and libraries which can be useful. In this article, we’ll have a look at Testcontainers. By using a sample microservice, we will show how Testcontainers can be used and what chances it provides.

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This blog post shows how to set up the new Docker plugin for Intellij IDEA 14.1 on Ubuntu Linux 14.10.
**1. Install Docker
If you haven’t installed Docker already, use the following command to install it:

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wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sudo sh<br />

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