In order to support Inner Loop integration or Shift-Left scenarios , we’ve worked recently on a stripped down version of Microcks that makes embedding it in your development workflow, on a laptop, within your unit tests possible. This new distribution is called microcks-uber and provides the essential services in a single container as represented below:

As the Uber distribution of Microcks is perfectly well-adapted for a quick evaluation, we don’t recommend running it in production! It doesn’t embed the authroization/authentication features provided by Keycloak and the performance guarantees offered by a real external MongoDB instance.

The original purpose of this Uber distribution is to be used through testing libraries like Testcontainers . Though it’s very easy to launch it using a simple docker command like below, binding the only necessary port to your local 8585:

docker run -p 8585:8080 -it quay.io/microcks/microcks-uber:nightly

Testcontainers integration

Microcks now provides official modules for Testcontainers via a partenership with AtomicJar , the company behind this fantastic library! You can find information on the official module on Testcontainers Microcks page .

As of today, we provide support for following languages:

• Java ☕️ - See our GitHub repository - See our demo application for Spring Boot 🍃 and for Quarkus .
• NodeJS - See our GitHub repository
• Go - See our GitHub repository

Also below a set of blog posts explaining the benefist and underlying mechanisms this integrations:

• Mocking and contract-testing in your Inner Loop with Microcks - Part 1: Easy environment setup
• Mocking and contract-testing in your Inner Loop with Microcks - Part 2: Unit testing with Testcontainers
• Mocking and contract-testing in your Inner Loop with Microcks - Part 3: Quarkus Devservice FTW