Reuse of testcontaines requires additional setup.

[vrogach2020]

On windows environment you need to add the following .testcontainers.properties file in your home directory to get 'withReuse' option working:

testcontainers.reuse.enable=true

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62425598/how-to-reuse-testcontainers-between-multiple-springboottests

[andrei-punko]

It's looks strange - requirement to add some property on Windows only to have same behavior on all platforms.
Library should have same behavior for same set of properties on all platforms.

[akudiyar]

Related issue: testcontainers/testcontainers-java#1781

[vrogach2020]

@andrei-punko you are right. It seems that behavior should be similar for all environments: reuse option is off by default. See
https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/utility/TestcontainersConfiguration.java#L167

I've tested the library on Ubuntu and Windows envs and observe that TC reuse is not working on my Ubuntu 20 with latest docker versions. Looks like 'reuse' is not a stable feature but I think we should add some notes on this property.

[bsideup]

withReuse says that the container is "reusable" (as in, can be used by multiple test sessions, not just tests in the same testing session)

testcontainers.reuse.enable=true is an OS-independent option to say "this environment supports the containers reuse"

[vrogach2020]

We have nothing to do with our library here after @bsideup 's clarifing comment.
Closing issue