Best Practice for testing database?

Personally, I like setting up a docker environment.

An example from a pet project:

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.3'

services:

  app:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    working_dir: /app
    command: 'mix phx.server'
    ports:
      - '4000:4000'
    volumes:
      - '~/.bash-history:/.bash-history'
      - '.:/app:cached'
      - '/tmp:/tmp:delegated'
      - '.bashrc:/root/.bashrc:cached'
      - '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:cached'
      - '/var/tmp:/var/tmp:cached'
      - '/tmp:/tmp:cached'
    depends_on:
      - db

  db:
    image: postgres:11-alpine
    volumes:
      - 'pgdata:/var/lib/postgres/data'

volumes:
  pgdata:

Makefile

start:
	docker-compose up -d

stop:
	docker-compose down

build:
	docker-compose build app

shell:
	docker-compose run --rm app bash

install:
	docker-compose run --rm app mix deps.get

install-assets:
	docker-compose run --rm app bash -c "cd assets && npm install && node node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --mode development"

compile:
	docker-compose run --rm app bash -c "mix do compile, phx.digest"

db-setup:
	docker-compose run --rm app mix ecto.setup

db-reset:
	docker-compose run --rm app mix ecto.reset

start-interactive:
	docker-compose run --rm --service-ports app iex -S mix phx.server

test:
	docker-compose run --rm app mix test

setup: build install install-assets compile db-setup

.PHONY: test
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