How does Testcontainers Cloud work?

Testcontainers Cloud agent opens an SSH tunnel and connects to the Docker daemon in the cloud environment

Testcontainers Cloud removes the need for local Docker installation. When you trigger your tests in a local environment Testcontainers Cloud agent opens an SSH tunnel and connects to the Docker daemon in the cloud environment. It will pull a Docker image and start the container defined in your Testcontainers-based test. Connection to the cloud environment will be active while your tests are running. When your test suite completes, Testcontainers Cloud will wait for a short period of time and then close the connection and remove allocated resources automatically.