Maelstrom – A Hermetic, Clustered Test Runner for Python and Rust

In plain words

Maelstrom is a test runner for Python and Rust that executes tests in isolated lightweight containers on a single machine or distributed cluster. It works as a drop-in replacement for cargo test and pytest with minimal configuration, running each test hermetically to prevent failures from test interdependencies. The tool includes a custom rootless container implementation built in Rust and scales linearly by adding worker machines to increase throughput.

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From the sources

Maelstrom is a fast Rust, Go, and Python test runner that runs every test in its own container. Tests are either run locally or distributed to a clustered job runner. - maelstrom-software/maelstrom

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi everyone, Maelstrom is a suite of tools for running tests in hermetic micro-containers locally on your machine or distributed across arbitrarily large clusters. Maelstrom currently has test runners for Rust and Python, with more on the way. You might use Maelstrom to run your tests because: * It's easy. Maelstrom…

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