[Bug]: TESTCONTAINERS_CHECKS_DISABLE doesn't stop alpine image from being pulled

[michaelhalllloyds]

Module

Core

Testcontainers version

1.21.3

Using the latest Testcontainers version?

Yes

Host OS

Ubuntu

Host Arch

x86

Docker version

Docker version 20.10.15, build fd82621

What happened?

When setting TESTCONTAINERS_CHECKS_DISABLE, the Alpine image is still being pulled. It is therefore necessary to set TESTCONTAINERS_TINYIMAGE_CONTAINER_IMAGE to something that my CI (Jenkins) can access, in order to pull that image. The docs state that if TESTCONTAINERS_CHECKS_DISABLE is true, this shouldn't happen

Relevant log output

09:33:21  2025-11-24T09:33:21.309+0000 [DEBUG] [TestEventLogger]     {"timestamp":"2025-11-24T09:33:20.633Z","severity":"INFO","message":"Testcontainers version: 1.21.3","process":{"thread":{"name":"Test worker"}}}
09:33:24  2025-11-24T09:33:23.561+0000 [DEBUG] [TestEventLogger]     {"timestamp":"2025-11-24T09:33:23.561Z","severity":"INFO","message":"Found Docker environment with local Unix socket (unix:///var/run/docker.sock)","process":{"thread":{"name":"Test worker"}}}
09:33:24  2025-11-24T09:33:23.736+0000 [DEBUG] [TestEventLogger]     {"timestamp":"2025-11-24T09:33:23.736Z","severity":"WARN","message":"\n********************************************************************************\nRyuk has been disabled. This can cause unexpected behavior in your environment.\n********************************************************************************","process":{"thread":{"name":"Test worker"}}}
09:33:24  2025-11-24T09:33:23.848+0000 [DEBUG] [TestEventLogger]     {"timestamp":"2025-11-24T09:33:23.848Z","severity":"INFO","message":"Pulling docker image: alpine:3.17. Please be patient; this may take some time but only needs to be done once.","process":{"thread":{"name":"Test worker"}}}
09:33:25  2025-11-24T09:33:24.983+0000 [DEBUG] [TestEventLogger]     {"timestamp":"2025-11-24T09:33:24.972Z","severity":"ERROR","message":"Error during callback","process":{"thread":{"name":"docker-java-stream-1039059310"}},"error":

Additional Information

No response

[Woongi9]

@eddumelendez Hi, I'd like to work on this. Could you please assign this to me?