# Testing Quarkus applications with Testcontainers — Test with services not supported by Dev Services

> Your application might use a service that Dev Services doesn't support out of the box.

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Your application might use a service that Dev Services doesn't support out of the box. In that case, use QuarkusTestResourceLifecycleManager to start the service before the Quarkus application starts for testing.

For example, suppose the application uses CockroachDB. First, add the CockroachDB Testcontainers module dependency

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```xml
&lt;dependency&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;org.testcontainers&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;cockroachdb&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
&lt;/dependency&gt;
```

Create a CockroachDBTestResource that implements QuarkusTestResourceLifecycleManager

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```java
package com.testcontainers.demo;

import io.quarkus.test.common.QuarkusTestResourceLifecycleManager;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import org.testcontainers.containers.CockroachContainer;

public class CockroachDBTestResource implements QuarkusTestResourceLifecycleManager {

    CockroachContainer cockroachdb;

    @Override
    public Map&lt;String, String&gt; start() {
        cockroachdb = new CockroachContainer("cockroachdb/cockroach:v22.2.0");
        cockroachdb.start();
        Map&lt;String, String&gt; conf = new HashMap&lt;&gt;();
        conf.put("quarkus.datasource.jdbc.url", cockroachdb.getJdbcUrl());
        conf.put("quarkus.datasource.username", cockroachdb.getUsername());
        conf.put("quarkus.datasource.password", cockroachdb.getPassword());
        return conf;
    }

    @Override
    public void stop() {
        cockroachdb.stop();
    }
}
```

Use the CockroachDBTestResource with @QuarkusTestResource in a test class

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