Proposal

As a test developer, I would be interested to provision a cluster of services depending on each other. For that the Java implementation offers the dependsOn() implementation: https://java.testcontainers.org/features/startup_and_waits/#depending-on-another-container . It would be nice to have a similar feature in Testcontainers for Go.

Why not Docker Compose?. As discussed on Slack, at the moment Docker Compose in Testcontainers for Go is considered rather temporary and not stable. So it is better. My experiments in Testcontainers for C/C++ show that it rather does not work at all with recent API versions. So it is preferred to have a native implementation instead.

References

• Slack convo