[Bug]: Testcontainers does not work with latest Docker Desktop on Mac #11240
Description
Module
Core
Testcontainers version
1.21.3
Using the latest Testcontainers version?
Yes
Host OS
Mac
Host Arch
ARM
Docker version
Client:
Version: 29.0.1
API version: 1.52
Go version: go1.25.4
Git commit: eedd969
Built: Fri Nov 14 16:16:57 2025
OS/Arch: darwin/arm64
Context: desktop-linux
Server: Docker Desktop 4.52.0 (210994)
Engine:
Version: 29.0.1
API version: 1.52 (minimum version 1.44)
Go version: go1.25.4
Git commit: 198b5e3
Built: Fri Nov 14 16:18:20 2025
OS/Arch: linux/arm64
Experimental: false
containerd:
Version: v2.1.5
GitCommit: fcd43222d6b07379a4be9786bda52438f0dd16a1
runc:
Version: 1.3.3
GitCommit: v1.3.3-0-gd842d771
docker-init:
Version: 0.19.0
GitCommit: de40ad0What happened?
I've just updated Docker Desktop and now I get an error:
2025-11-24T13:35:39.069+01:00 INFO 82397 --- [ restartedMain] o.t.d.DockerClientProviderStrategy : Loaded org.testcontainers.dockerclient.UnixSocketClientProviderStrategy from ~/.testcontainers.properties, will try it first
2025-11-24T13:35:39.161+01:00 INFO 82397 --- [ restartedMain] .t.d.DockerMachineClientProviderStrategy : docker-machine executable was not found on PATH ([/Users/simon/.local/bin, /usr/local/sqlcl/bin, /Users/simon/Scripts, /Users/simon/.codeium/windsurf/bin, /opt/homebrew/opt/libpq/bin, /Users/simon/.sdkman/candidates/maven/current/bin, /Users/simon/.sdkman/candidates/jbang/current/bin, /Users/simon/.sdkman/candidates/java/current/bin, /opt/homebrew/bin, /opt/homebrew/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin, /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/sbin, /sbin, /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin, /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin, /var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin, /opt/pmk/env/global/bin, /Library/Apple/usr/bin, /Users/simon/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/scripts, /Users/simon/.orbstack/bin])
2025-11-24T13:35:39.162+01:00 ERROR 82397 --- [ restartedMain] o.t.d.DockerClientProviderStrategy : Could not find a valid Docker environment. Please check configuration. Attempted configurations were:
UnixSocketClientProviderStrategy: failed with exception BadRequestException (Status 400: {"ID":"","Containers":0,"ContainersRunning":0,"ContainersPaused":0,"ContainersStopped":0,"Images":0,"Driver":"","DriverStatus":null,"Plugins":{"Volume":null,"Network":null,"Authorization":null,"Log":null},"MemoryLimit":false,"SwapLimit":false,"CpuCfsPeriod":false,"CpuCfsQuota":false,"CPUShares":false,"CPUSet":false,"PidsLimit":false,"IPv4Forwarding":false,"Debug":false,"NFd":0,"OomKillDisable":false,"NGoroutines":0,"SystemTime":"","LoggingDriver":"","CgroupDriver":"","NEventsListener":0,"KernelVersion":"","OperatingSystem":"","OSVersion":"","OSType":"","Architecture":"","IndexServerAddress":"","RegistryConfig":null,"NCPU":0,"MemTotal":0,"GenericResources":null,"DockerRootDir":"","HttpProxy":"","HttpsProxy":"","NoProxy":"","Name":"","Labels":["com.docker.desktop.address=unix:///Users/simon/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/docker-cli.sock"],"ExperimentalBuild":false,"ServerVersion":"","Runtimes":null,"DefaultRuntime":"","Swarm":{"NodeID":"","NodeAddr":"","LocalNodeState":"","ControlAvailable":false,"Error":"","RemoteManagers":null},"LiveRestoreEnabled":false,"Isolation":"","InitBinary":"","ContainerdCommit":{"ID":""},"RuncCommit":{"ID":""},"InitCommit":{"ID":""},"SecurityOptions":null,"CDISpecDirs":null,"Warnings":null})
DockerDesktopClientProviderStrategy: failed with exception BadRequestException (Status 400: {"ID":"","Containers":0,"ContainersRunning":0,"ContainersPaused":0,"ContainersStopped":0,"Images":0,"Driver":"","DriverStatus":null,"Plugins":{"Volume":null,"Network":null,"Authorization":null,"Log":null},"MemoryLimit":false,"SwapLimit":false,"CpuCfsPeriod":false,"CpuCfsQuota":false,"CPUShares":false,"CPUSet":false,"PidsLimit":false,"IPv4Forwarding":false,"Debug":false,"NFd":0,"OomKillDisable":false,"NGoroutines":0,"SystemTime":"","LoggingDriver":"","CgroupDriver":"","NEventsListener":0,"KernelVersion":"","OperatingSystem":"","OSVersion":"","OSType":"","Architecture":"","IndexServerAddress":"","RegistryConfig":null,"NCPU":0,"MemTotal":0,"GenericResources":null,"DockerRootDir":"","HttpProxy":"","HttpsProxy":"","NoProxy":"","Name":"","Labels":["com.docker.desktop.address=unix:///Users/simon/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/docker-cli.sock"],"ExperimentalBuild":false,"ServerVersion":"","Runtimes":null,"DefaultRuntime":"","Swarm":{"NodeID":"","NodeAddr":"","LocalNodeState":"","ControlAvailable":false,"Error":"","RemoteManagers":null},"LiveRestoreEnabled":false,"Isolation":"","InitBinary":"","ContainerdCommit":{"ID":""},"RuncCommit":{"ID":""},"InitCommit":{"ID":""},"SecurityOptions":null,"CDISpecDirs":null,"Warnings":null})As no valid configuration was found, execution cannot continue.
See https://java.testcontainers.org/on_failure.html for more details.
2025-11-24T13:35:39.162+01:00 WARN 82397 --- [ restartedMain] ConfigServletWebServerApplicationContext : Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'application': Error creating bean with name 'postgresContainer' defined in ch.martinelli.vj.TestVjConfiguration: Could not find a valid Docker environment. Please see logs and check configuration
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