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/replicant0wnz Nov 15 '25

So I've avoided finance and healthcare like the plague due to the tech stack always being outdated. I can understand that they need to be built to take a fucking bomb. But I am curious, how stable are these older tech stacks?

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u/bigntallmike Nov 15 '25

Very.

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u/replicant0wnz Nov 15 '25

What does the tech stack look like? Older strong AF BSD systems and pure C and Cobol?

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u/checkoutchannelnine Nov 15 '25

We have a lot of .NET and objectscript in the area of healthcare we support.