Quarkus Dev Services

Quarkus is deeply focused on improving the developer experience for Java – we’ve seen multiple examples so far. Quarkus Dev Services is a step further in this quest for developer joy. Its main feature is to automatically provision services in development and test modes. This means that if your project has an extension configured to provide a database service, a messaging provider, an in-memory datastore, or one of the many other supported services, Quarkus will automatically start and configure this service for your application upon its startup.

Under the hood, Quarkus uses Testcontainers and Docker to provide these services. It’s required to have a Docker-compatible environment for this feature to work.

This means we won’t need to have a local PostgreSQL database available when running our application in development mode. We won’t need to provide a configuration either. Quarkus will start a Docker container with a fresh...