Windows + Docker + Selenium Grid

I'll take you through the steps to get Selenium Grid Docker images up and running on Windows.

There are several ways to get this done by installing Vagrant (or like tool) and Docker for Windows.  Luckily Docker has packaged this up for us in Kitematic.

• So lets download Kitematic : https://kitematic.com/.

• After its downloaded - start the Docker Quickstart Terminal

1. Now that terminal is started; I've called out where to find your host address that you will use to access the docker container instance.

1. Lets get Selenium grid up and running.
1. Create a directory: $ mkdir compose
2. $ cd compose
3. $ notepad docker-compose.yml
4. copy and paste
5. hub: image: selenium/hub ports: - "4444:4444"chrome: image: selenium/node-chrome links: - hubfirefox: image: selenium/node-firefox links: - hub
6. Save
7. Run: $ docker-compose up
8. You can see the selenium-grid at <instance ip> 
1. http://<host address>:4444/grid/console  
2. e.g. http://192.168.99.100:4444/grid/console

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   Docker scales easily making this perfect Testing.

   
   

   1. Run: $ docker-compose scale chrome=7
   2. What we get is 7 additional agents!

   

   
   

   Now - let's run a Selenium Test using our new toy.
   See follow-up blog: http://cloud-docker-selenium.blogspot.com/p/selenium-grid-testng-parallel-execution.html