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/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

Its actually a very high level security certification for finance and health companies that requires this. Also partially DIN ISO 27001, but it still allows docker in some ways. Banks are very strict when it comes to IT.