Terminate docker compose when test container finishes

Question

I am currently running a docker-compose stack for basic integration tests with a protractor test runner, a nodejs server serving a web page and a wildfly server serving a java b

Answer 1

The solution I found to be most elegant is to use depends_on in your docker-compose.yml file.

services:
  dynamodb:
  ...
  test_runner:
    ...
    depends_on:
      - dynamodb

Now you can use docker-compose run --rm test_runner which will set up your dependencies, run your tests, tear down everything, and propagate the return code.

docker-compose run test_runner false
Starting test_dynamodb_1 ... done
echo $?
1
docker-compose run test_runner true
Starting test_dynamodb_1 ... done
echo $?