Enable/disable container reuse with an environment variable

[juliette-derancourt]

I'm using Testcontainers reuse feature and want to disable it when running tests in CI.

Would it be possible to add support for a TESTCONTAINERS_REUSE_ENABLE environment variable, like in Testcontainers Java?
Or is there already another way to achieve this that I haven't found?

Thanks!

[cristianrgreco]

Would it be possible to add support for a TESTCONTAINERS_REUSE_ENABLE environment variable, like in Testcontainers Java?

Yes please, PR welcome 🙂

[juliette-derancourt]

I'll submit a PR 👍

I'm just wondering what should happen if TESTCONTAINERS_REUSE_ENABLE has no value?
Should the re-use feature stay enabled to maintain backward compatibility, or is it ok for this to be a breaking change? In which case the feature would now be disabled (same behaviour as Testcontainers Java).

[cristianrgreco]

I'm imagining the env var to be an override of the withReuse function. So if no value then do nothing, like you say maintain backward compatibility