Optimising Your Inner Development Loop with Spring Boot 3.1+ and Docker

I will demonstrate how to optimise your inner development loop using the Development-time Services introduced in Spring Boot 3.1+. I will show you how to use Spring Boot in conjunction with Docker Compose or Testcontainers to manage the lifecycles of Docker containers during automated and ad hoc integration testing.

Then I will demonstrate how to leverage the ConnectionDetails abstraction to implement support for container types not supported out-of-the-box by Spring Boot. This will be done using the generic container and custom module support in Testcontainers.