Fixing Issues with Discovering A Supported Container Runtime Environment

If you ended up on this page, it seems that either Testcontainers was not able to find a supported container runtime in your environment, or you found this page while searching for information to deal with errors regarding the environment discovery mechanism of Testcontainers.

Testcontainers requires a supported container runtime environment to be present in order to manage and run containers. Here is a list of supported container runtime environments:

• Docker Desktop
• Docker Engine on Linux
• Testcontainers Cloud

For more extensive information on supported container runtime environments, as well as known limitations of alternative container runtime environments, please refer to this page in our documentation.