Sidecar BDD in Jenkins

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Sometimes BDD testing requires a database, as it requires some form of data input to form a situation for certain behaviour. Many BDD tools like CakePHP or Ruby on Rails allow programmers to inject fixture test data into the database and run your tests.

I have a situation where I need not only mysql but also redis to run the BDD, and I need to automate it in the Jenkins Pipeline so that every time there is a PR, it gets…