I am working on a software integration with starrocks. For integration tests I would love to spin up a minimal instance. What is the best way to do so? Is it https://github.com/StarRocks/demo/tree/master/deploy/docker-compose ? Ideally there would be a nix package - like there is for clickhouse

Use the quickstart docker image. It's pretty simple to setup for testing purpose https://docs.starrocks.io/docs/quick_start/shared-nothing/

hm it is still rather heavy to run in CI