How to Use the Materialize Emulator
In our last blog about our Quality Assurance (QA) team, we gave an overview of the QA process, including our software and testing methods. One of our key tools during testing is the Materialize Emulator, a Docker image that allows you to maintain a locally hosted version of Materialize.
But there’s an important caveat: the Materialize Emulator cannot support production workloads. The Materialize Emulator lacks critical features of our cloud platform, including fault tolerance and GUI support. But the Emulator is great for testing and prototyping.
The Materialize Emulator is an all-in-one Docker image available on Docker Hub for testing and evaluation purposes. The Emulator is not representative of Materialize’s performance and full feature set.
We’ve always used the Materialize Emulator for testing, except for the kind that requires cloud integration with Kubernetes.
