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Why use Testcontainers in a Dockerized Spring Boot project's test suite?

It spins up real, ephemeral instances of dependencies (Postgres, Kafka, Redis) as Docker containers during test execution, giving integration tests real behavior instead of mocks/in-memory fakes, while still being fully automated and disposable per test run.

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