# Securing Spring Boot microservice using Keycloak and Testcontainers — Configure the test containers

> Spring Boot's Testcontainers support lets you declare containers as beans.

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## Knowledge

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Spring Boot's Testcontainers support lets you declare containers as beans. For Keycloak, @ServiceConnection isn't available, but you can use DynamicPropertyRegistry to set the JWT issuer URI dynamically.

Create ContainersConfig.java under src/test/java

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```java
package com.testcontainers.products;

import dasniko.testcontainers.keycloak.KeycloakContainer;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.TestConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.testcontainers.service.connection.ServiceConnection;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.test.context.DynamicPropertyRegistry;
import org.testcontainers.postgresql.PostgreSQLContainer;

@TestConfiguration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
public class ContainersConfig {

  static String POSTGRES_IMAGE = "postgres:16-alpine";
  static String KEYCLOAK_IMAGE = "quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:25.0";
  static String realmImportFile = "/keycloaktcdemo-realm.json";
  static String realmName = "keycloaktcdemo";

  @Bean
  @ServiceConnection
  PostgreSQLContainer postgres() {
    return new PostgreSQLContainer(POSTGRES_IMAGE);
  }

  @Bean
  KeycloakContainer keycloak(DynamicPro
```

Declares a PostgreSQLContainer bean with @ServiceConnection, which starts a PostgreSQL container and automatically registers the datasource properties. Declares a KeycloakContainer bean using the quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:25.0 image, imports the realm configuration file, and dynamically registers the JWT issuer URI from the Keycloak container's auth server URL.

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