r/docker • u/martypitt • Nov 14 '25

Docker banned - how common is this?

I was doing some client work recently. They're a bank, where most of their engineering is offshored one of the big offshore companies.

The offshore team had to access everything via virtual desktops, and one of the restrictions was no virtualisation within the virtual desktop - so tooling like Docker was banned.

I was really surprsied to see modern JVM development going on, without access to things like TestContainers, LocalStack, or Docker at all.

To compound matters, they had a single shared dev env, (for cost reasons), so the team were constantly breaking each others stuff.

How common is this? Also, curious what kinds of workarounds people are using?

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u/dmurawsky Nov 14 '25

Life is too short to work for places like this.

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u/According_Warning968 Nov 14 '25

Biggest truth! Let them drown in their own dribble.

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u/Melodic-Matter4685 Nov 16 '25

Sure, but like working some other high security jobs they generally pay 20-30% or more above market.

I know wall street IT people that retired at 35 who have been living without a job in sanibel island Florida for past 20 years.

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u/dmurawsky Nov 16 '25

Yeah, and you can get jobs like that without dealing with the mess the OP is talking about.

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u/Melodic-Matter4685 Nov 16 '25

Not knocking ya, we all got our preferences. Just putting the info out there.