TestContainer stopped working after updating Docker Desktop to v4.56.0

[hifacundoramallo (framallo)]

@meyay

Testcontainers 1.20.6 was released in May 2025. It does not work out of the box with Docker Engine v29, which is used by Docker Desktop since version 4.52.0.

I would put my money on: the testcontainers version used, by default uses an api version that is smaller than the min-api version 1.44 docker v29 requires by default.

You can set the api version in the docker-java.properties of your project:

Thanks @meyay !!!

I coulnd’t use “testImplementation(“org.testcontainers:testcontainers:2.0.2”)” because it’s not compatible with the version of postgress and rabbit I’m using.

So the solution was create the file docker-java.properties under my src/test/resources and set the version there.

Now it works just fine!

Thanks a lot!