Replace manual docker compose start/stop in the CI workflow with
Testcontainers in Playwright global setup/teardown. This gives:
- Automatic container lifecycle tied to the test run
- Health-check-based wait strategies per service
- Clean teardown even on test failures
- No CI workflow coupling to Docker orchestration
Changes:
- e2e/global.setup.ts: Start smoke stack via DockerComposeEnvironment
(nginx, phpMyAdmin, Mongo Express, RedisInsight) with health check waits
- e2e/global.teardown.ts: New file — stops Testcontainers environment
- e2e/playwright.config.ts: Register globalSetup/globalTeardown, bind dev
servers to 0.0.0.0 in CI so nginx can proxy via host.docker.internal
- gated-pipeline.yml: Remove docker compose start/stop/verify steps,
add 10min timeout to Playwright step
- e2e/deployment-smoke.spec.ts: Update doc comment
- package.json: Add testcontainers@^11.12.0 devDependency
https://claude.ai/code/session_018rmhuicK7L7jV2YBJDXiQz
