You can do something similar with docker compose, driving the system from the outside. Create dockerized versions of dependencies like the database, build and run tests, and then run tests against the production app container.
It's particularly useful for testing a set of microservices.
See https://github.com/cogini/phoenix_container_example for a full example. This blog post describes it in detail: https://www.cogini.com/blog/breaking-up-the-monolith-buildin...