Clean up automatically when container stopped

[alexcase52]

Hi, is there a way to properly clean up once container stopped?
Would be good to have it as a setter in GenericContainer.

It could rely on this

[bsideup]

hi @alexcase52,

Do you want it to be cleaned during the tests or after?

[alexcase52]

Immediately once the container stopped is better for me - it may retain some space. But usually it is no so important when.

[kiview]

We already have such a functionality in place (Reaper) and we will soon add a more reliable component for this running outside the JVM.

What functionality are you missing with the current implementation?

[alexcase52]

OK if you already have it. I just see some strange exited containers appeared after I started experiments with testcontainers. In my case there were postgres containers.

[kiview]

This will currently happen if you i.e. SIGKILL the JVM process.

[alexcase52]

Maybe I had this case and some guard here is desirable. Quite often I could terminate tests e.g. while debugging if I see that something failed and I've got what was wrong. Not sure how this docker --rm flag will behave.

[bsideup]

@alexcase52
Bad news: --rm doesn't help (try kill -9 your docker run --rm :) )
Good news: we're going to handle that! :) See #545 for the details, to be released soon

[alexcase52]

Thanks, will wait for this change

[iNikem]

I believe this can be closed now as #545 is released in 1.6.0

[kiview]

Closed by #545