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Note: These are suggested optimizations I have not personally tried yet. I’m blogging them as I’m planning to test them throughout this week. OrbStack is highly optimized for macOS, using a proprietary, high-performance networking stack and a custom VirtioFS implementation with aggressive caching. Podman, while being open-source and standard-compliant, can be tuned to significantly bridge the performance gap. The following plan outlines key areas where Podman’s performance can be improved on macOS: ...

This guide walks you through running PostgreSQL in Testcontainers with SSL enabled and client-certificate authentication (verify-full). It explains: How to generate a CA, server, and client certificates. How to prepare certificate/key files and the right formats/permissions. How to configure PostgreSQL (postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf) to require client certificates. How to wire everything up in Testcontainers. How to connect from Java (JDBC) and optionally from the psql CLI. Everything here is based on the code in this repository, particularly: ...