docker backend
test backend
The default testlab backend — disposable Linux containers from an image.
The docker backend is the testlab's default. Each test (or test group) gets a disposable container from the test's image. It is Linux-only.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| backend value | "docker" (default) |
| image | a docker image ref, e.g. "debian:12" |
| requires | image must contain sleep and sh (distroless unsupported) |
| parallelism | --docker-jobs N (default min(cpu, 8)) |