diff --git a/hack/make/test-docker-py b/hack/make/test-docker-py
index b70b8a8837..e145d03e3a 100644
--- a/hack/make/test-docker-py
+++ b/hack/make/test-docker-py
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ source hack/make/.integration-test-helpers
 #: exit status 128
 : "${DOCKER_PY_COMMIT:=4.2.1}"
 
+# Override the API version used to make sure all tests are run
+# TODO remove this or unset this after https://github.com/docker/docker-py/pull/2512 is merged
+: "${DOCKER_PY_TEST_API_VERSION:=1.39}"
+
 # custom options to pass py.test
 # TODO remove these skip once we update to a docker-py version that has https://github.com/docker/docker-py/pull/2549: CreateContainerTest::test_invalid_log_driver_raises_exception
 #
@@ -57,7 +61,7 @@ source hack/make/.integration-test-helpers
 	(
 		[ -n "${TESTDEBUG}" ] && set -x
 		# shellcheck disable=SC2086,SC2140
-		exec docker run --rm ${run_opts} --mount type=bind,"src=${ABS_DEST}","dst=/src/${DEST}" "${docker_py_image}" pytest ${PY_TEST_OPTIONS} tests/integration
+		exec docker run --rm ${run_opts} -e DOCKER_TEST_API_VERSION="${DOCKER_PY_TEST_API_VERSION}" --mount type=bind,"src=${ABS_DEST}","dst=/src/${DEST}" "${docker_py_image}" pytest ${PY_TEST_OPTIONS} tests/integration
 	)
 	bundle .integration-daemon-stop
 ) 2>&1 | tee -a "$DEST/test.log"