https://blog.devops-monk.com/tags/container-reuse/Recent content in Container-Reuse on Devops MonkHugoen-usSat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.devops-monk.com/tutorials/testcontainers/container-reuse/Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.devops-monk.com/tutorials/testcontainers/container-reuse/The singleton pattern shares a container within a single test run. Container reuse goes further — it keeps the container alive after the JVM exits and reuses it in the next test run. The first run pays the startup cost (8 seconds for Kafka). Every subsequent run skips it entirely. For a developer who runs the test suite dozens of times per day, this saves minutes of waiting. What You’ll Learn Enabling container reuse with .