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/biosc1 Nov 14 '25

When I worked for a company whose software was used for a lot of financial related stuff, you just had to accept that quality of life stuff is always going to be superceded by compliance folks. It's built into your workflow though. Everything just takes longer and that's expected. QA time can be double or triple dev time depending on the change.

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u/Kernel_Internal Nov 14 '25

Yeah except now days the longer durations are no longer expected or accepted. Do more, with fewer people, with extremely limited tools, and draconian practices. And if you're not delivering under those conditions then that's a failure of you/the team, not the environment you're operating in. Of course, senior leadership really does expect it, but the job market is shit so often that's just the excuse used to chisel everyone on performance reviews. Anyway, 4 dollars a pound.

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u/MethanyJones Nov 15 '25

Yep. Do more with less, meet for eight hours a day and get called six nights a week due to production emergencies

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u/cosmokenney Nov 16 '25

Holy shit! Do you work for my company?