diff --git a/ebean-test/src/main/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/Config.java b/ebean-test/src/main/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/Config.java
index 0e6a276b8..3da2f3eee 100644
--- a/ebean-test/src/main/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/Config.java
+++ b/ebean-test/src/main/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/Config.java
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import io.ebean.config.DatabaseConfig;
 import io.ebean.datasource.DataSourceConfig;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-import java.io.File;
+
 import java.util.Properties;
 
 /**
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ class Config {
    * Common optional docker parameters that we just transfer to docker properties.
    */
   private static final String[] DOCKER_TEST_PARAMS = {"fastStartMode", "inMemory", "initSqlFile", "seedSqlFile", "adminUser", "adminPassword", "extraDb", "extraDb.dbName", "extraDb.username", "extraDb.password", "extraDb.initSqlFile", "extraDb.seedSqlFile"};
-  private static final String[] DOCKER_PLATFORM_PARAMS = {"containerName", "image", "internalPort", "startMode", "stopMode", "shutdown", "maxReadyAttempts", "tmpfs", "collation", "characterSet"};
+  private static final String[] DOCKER_PLATFORM_PARAMS = {"containerName", "image", "internalPort", "startMode", "shutdownMode", "maxReadyAttempts", "tmpfs", "collation", "characterSet"};
 
   private static final String DDL_MODE_OPTIONS = "dropCreate, create, none, migration, createOnly or migrationDropCreate";
 
@@ -388,11 +388,10 @@ class Config {
   }
 
   private void setDockerOptionalParameters() {
-
     // check for shutdown mode on all containers
-    String mode = properties.getProperty("ebean.test.shutdown");
-    if (mode != null && !ignoreDockerShutdown()) {
-      dockerProperties.setProperty(dockerKey("shutdown"), mode);
+    String mode = properties.getProperty("ebean.test.shutdownMode");
+    if (mode != null) {
+      dockerProperties.setProperty(dockerKey("shutdownMode"), mode);
     }
     for (String key : DOCKER_TEST_PARAMS) {
       String val = getKey(key, null);
@@ -410,26 +409,6 @@ class Config {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * For local development we might want to ignore docker shutdown.
-   * <p>
-   * So we just want the shutdown mode to be used on the CI server.
-   */
-  boolean ignoreDockerShutdown() {
-    String localDev = properties.getProperty("ebean.test.localDevelopment", "~/.ebean/ignore-docker-shutdown");
-    return ignoreDockerShutdown(localDev);
-  }
-
-  boolean ignoreDockerShutdown(String localDev) {
-
-    if (localDev.startsWith("~/")) {
-      File homeDir = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"));
-      return new File(homeDir, localDev.substring(2)).exists();
-    }
-
-    return new File(localDev).exists();
-  }
-
   private String dockerKey(String key) {
     return dockerPlatform + "." + key;
   }
diff --git a/ebean-test/src/main/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/ElasticSearchSetup.java b/ebean-test/src/main/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/ElasticSearchSetup.java
index c8324d868..94799d009 100644
--- a/ebean-test/src/main/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/ElasticSearchSetup.java
+++ b/ebean-test/src/main/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/ElasticSearchSetup.java
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import java.util.Properties;
  */
 class ElasticSearchSetup {
 
-  private static final String[] DOCKER_PARAMS = {"containerName", "image", "internalPort", "startMode", "shutdown"};
+  private static final String[] DOCKER_PARAMS = {"containerName", "image", "internalPort", "startMode", "shutdownMode"};
 
   private final Properties config;
 
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ class ElasticSearchSetup {
 
   private Properties populateDockerProperties(String version) {
     PropertiesBuilder properties = new PropertiesBuilder();
-    String mode = config.getProperty("ebean.test.shutdown");
+    String mode = config.getProperty("ebean.test.shutdownMode");
     if (mode != null) {
-      properties.set("shutdown", mode);
+      properties.set("shutdownMode", mode);
     }
 
     properties.set("version", version);
diff --git a/ebean-test/src/test/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/ConfigTest.java b/ebean-test/src/test/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/ConfigTest.java
index e84ae203b..7971c2bb7 100644
--- a/ebean-test/src/test/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/ConfigTest.java
+++ b/ebean-test/src/test/java/io/ebean/test/config/platform/ConfigTest.java
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import io.ebean.datasource.DataSourceConfig;
 import io.ebeaninternal.api.DbOffline;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import java.util.Properties;
@@ -140,42 +139,6 @@ class ConfigTest {
     assertThat(centralProps.getProperty("datasource.central.username")).isEqualTo("central");
   }
 
-  @Test
-  void ignoreDockerShutdown() {
-    Properties sourceProperties = new Properties();
-    DatabaseConfig serverConfig = new DatabaseConfig();
-    serverConfig.loadFromProperties(sourceProperties);
-
-    Config config = new Config("main", "postgres", "main", serverConfig);
-
-    assertThat(config.ignoreDockerShutdown("./src/test/resources/logback-test.xml")).isTrue();
-    assertThat(config.ignoreDockerShutdown("./src/test/resources/file-does-not-exist")).isFalse();
-  }
-
-  @Disabled
-  @Test
-  void run_local_only_ignoreDockerShutdown() {
-    Properties sourceProperties = new Properties();
-    DatabaseConfig serverConfig = new DatabaseConfig();
-    serverConfig.loadFromProperties(sourceProperties);
-
-    Config config = new Config("main", "postgres", "main", serverConfig);
-    assertThat(config.ignoreDockerShutdown("~/.ebean/ignore-docker-shutdown")).isTrue();
-    assertThat(config.ignoreDockerShutdown()).isTrue();
-  }
-
-  @Test
-  void ignoreDockerShutdown_viaProperties() {
-    Properties sourceProperties = new Properties();
-    sourceProperties.setProperty("ebean.test.localDevelopment", "./src/test/resources/logback-test.xml");
-
-    DatabaseConfig serverConfig = new DatabaseConfig();
-    serverConfig.loadFromProperties(sourceProperties);
-
-    Config config = new Config("main", "postgres", "main", serverConfig);
-    assertThat(config.ignoreDockerShutdown()).isTrue();
-  }
-
   @Test
   void readImage_fromPlatform() {
     Properties p = new Properties();
diff --git a/ebean-test/src/test/resources/logback-test.xml b/ebean-test/src/test/resources/logback-test.xml
index 3f022e12c..e95579b21 100644
--- a/ebean-test/src/test/resources/logback-test.xml
+++ b/ebean-test/src/test/resources/logback-test.xml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
   <logger name="org.tests" level="INFO"/>
   <logger name="io.ebean" level="INFO"/>
   <logger name="io.avaje.config" level="TRACE"/>
-  <logger name="io.ebean.docker" level="TRACE"/>
+  <logger name="io.ebean.docker" level="DEBUG"/>
   <logger name="io.ebean.test" level="TRACE"/>
 
 <!--  <logger name="io.ebean.DDL" level="DEBUG"/>-->
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c81a546c7..452bd0ebd 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     <ebean-ddl-runner.version>2.0</ebean-ddl-runner.version>
     <ebean-migration-auto.version>1.2</ebean-migration-auto.version>
     <ebean-migration.version>13.6.0</ebean-migration.version>
-    <ebean-test-docker.version>5.1</ebean-test-docker.version>
+    <ebean-test-docker.version>5.2</ebean-test-docker.version>
     <ebean-datasource.version>8.0</ebean-datasource.version>
     <ebean-agent.version>13.6.0</ebean-agent.version>
     <ebean-maven-plugin.version>13.6.0</ebean-maven-plugin.version>