.withReuse(true) and Docker Desktop on Windows

[bebo-dot-dev]

Hi all,

I understand that reusable testcontainers is still an experimental feature however we use it due to the volume of integration and component tests that we have in our repos to avoid many time consuming container teardowns / spin ups.

Reusable testcontainers worked great for us until recently when Docker Desktop started failing in Windows relating to an update to WSL 2.5.7. Following this, Docker released a 4.42.0 update to Docker Desktop to cope with the new version of WSL and now it does successfully start and run images/containers but reusable testcontainers remains broken. The testcontainers start but subsequent connects to the running containers timeout on connect.

Meanwhile Podman is immune to any changes applied in WSL 2.5.7 and reusable testcontainers works great in Podman.

Perhaps this will resolve itself in a couple more releases of Docker Desktop when they fully understand what changed in WSL to enable them work out all the bugs but my feeling is that docker don't take any issues raised around reusable testcontainers too seriously because it's a beta feature.

I just thought I'd open the discussion here to get thoughts from this side.