Hi, out of desperation for my laptop taking ages to run Hibernate Search / Elasticsearch tests, I created a new Docker image which improves my build times from 40 minutes to 5 minutes: - https://hub.docker.com/r/sanne/elasticsearch-light-testing/ - https://github.com/Sanne/elasticsearch-light-testing YMMV, it's great for my old laptop but only wins me a couple of seconds on the main workstation. Start it with: docker run -ti --tmpfs /run --tmpfs=/opt/elasticsearch/volatile/data:uid=1000 --tmpfs --tmpfs=/opt/elasticsearch/volatile/logs:uid=1000 -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 --name es-it sanne/elasticsearch-light-testing Run the Hibernate Search testsuite with: mvn clean install -Dtest.elasticsearch.host.provided=true -Dtest.elasticsearch.host.url=http://localhost:9200 Thanks, Sanne