diff --git a/spring-boot-integration-tests/spring-boot-launch-script-tests/pom.xml b/spring-boot-integration-tests/spring-boot-launch-script-tests/pom.xml
index 3a59db8cda7..650839777ac 100644
--- a/spring-boot-integration-tests/spring-boot-launch-script-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-integration-tests/spring-boot-launch-script-tests/pom.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.github.docker-java</groupId>
 			<artifactId>docker-java</artifactId>
-			<version>3.0.0-RC1</version>
+			<version>2.2.2</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/spring-boot-integration-tests/spring-boot-launch-script-tests/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/launchscript/SysVinitLaunchScriptIT.java b/spring-boot-integration-tests/spring-boot-launch-script-tests/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/launchscript/SysVinitLaunchScriptIT.java
index eeea6246e7c..89df5ce4c4a 100644
--- a/spring-boot-integration-tests/spring-boot-launch-script-tests/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/launchscript/SysVinitLaunchScriptIT.java
+++ b/spring-boot-integration-tests/spring-boot-launch-script-tests/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/launchscript/SysVinitLaunchScriptIT.java
@@ -17,20 +17,30 @@
 package org.springframework.boot.launchscript;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
+import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestContext;
+import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestFilter;
+import javax.ws.rs.client.Entity;
+import javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget;
+
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.DockerClient;
-import com.github.dockerjava.api.exception.DockerClientException;
+import com.github.dockerjava.api.command.DockerCmd;
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.model.Frame;
+import com.github.dockerjava.core.CompressArchiveUtil;
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.DockerClientBuilder;
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.DockerClientConfig;
-import com.github.dockerjava.core.DockerClientConfig.DockerClientConfigBuilder;
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.command.AttachContainerResultCallback;
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.command.BuildImageResultCallback;
-import com.github.dockerjava.core.command.WaitContainerResultCallback;
+import com.github.dockerjava.jaxrs.AbstrSyncDockerCmdExec;
+import com.github.dockerjava.jaxrs.DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl;
 import org.assertj.core.api.Condition;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@@ -53,6 +63,8 @@ import static org.junit.Assume.assumeThat;
 @RunWith(Parameterized.class)
 public class SysVinitLaunchScriptIT {
 
+	private final SpringBootDockerCmdExecFactory commandExecFactory = new SpringBootDockerCmdExecFactory();
+
 	private static final char ESC = 27;
 
 	private final String os;
@@ -211,8 +223,7 @@ public class SysVinitLaunchScriptIT {
 
 					});
 			resultCallback.awaitCompletion(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS).close();
-			docker.waitContainerCmd(container).exec(new WaitContainerResultCallback())
-					.awaitCompletion(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+			docker.waitContainerCmd(container).exec();
 			return output.toString();
 		}
 		finally {
@@ -221,16 +232,11 @@ public class SysVinitLaunchScriptIT {
 	}
 
 	private DockerClient createClient() {
-		DockerClientConfigBuilder builder = DockerClientConfig
-				.createDefaultConfigBuilder();
-		DockerClientConfig config;
-		try {
-			config = builder.build();
-		}
-		catch (DockerClientException ex) {
-			config = builder.withDockerTlsVerify(false).build();
-		}
-		return DockerClientBuilder.getInstance(config).build();
+		DockerClientConfig config = DockerClientConfig.createDefaultConfigBuilder()
+				.build();
+		DockerClient docker = DockerClientBuilder.getInstance(config)
+				.withDockerCmdExecFactory(this.commandExecFactory).build();
+		return docker;
 	}
 
 	private String buildImage(DockerClient docker) {
@@ -258,9 +264,10 @@ public class SysVinitLaunchScriptIT {
 				new File("src/test/resources/scripts/" + script));
 	}
 
-	private void copyToContainer(DockerClient docker, String container, File file) {
-		docker.copyArchiveToContainerCmd(container)
-				.withHostResource(file.getAbsolutePath()).exec();
+	private void copyToContainer(DockerClient docker, final String container,
+			final File file) {
+		this.commandExecFactory.createCopyToContainerCmdExec()
+				.exec(new CopyToContainerCmd(container, file));
 	}
 
 	private File findApplication() {
@@ -302,4 +309,81 @@ public class SysVinitLaunchScriptIT {
 				"Failed to extract " + label + " from output: " + output);
 	}
 
+	private static final class CopyToContainerCmdExec
+			extends AbstrSyncDockerCmdExec<CopyToContainerCmd, Void> {
+
+		private CopyToContainerCmdExec(WebTarget baseResource,
+				DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig) {
+			super(baseResource, dockerClientConfig);
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		protected Void execute(CopyToContainerCmd command) {
+			try {
+				InputStream streamToUpload = new FileInputStream(CompressArchiveUtil
+						.archiveTARFiles(command.getFile().getParentFile(),
+								Arrays.asList(command.getFile()),
+								command.getFile().getName()));
+				WebTarget webResource = getBaseResource().path("/containers/{id}/archive")
+						.resolveTemplate("id", command.getContainer());
+				webResource.queryParam("path", ".")
+						.queryParam("noOverwriteDirNonDir", false).request()
+						.put(Entity.entity(streamToUpload, "application/x-tar")).close();
+				return null;
+			}
+			catch (Exception ex) {
+				throw new RuntimeException(ex);
+			}
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	private static final class CopyToContainerCmd implements DockerCmd<Void> {
+
+		private final String container;
+
+		private final File file;
+
+		private CopyToContainerCmd(String container, File file) {
+			this.container = container;
+			this.file = file;
+		}
+
+		public String getContainer() {
+			return this.container;
+		}
+
+		public File getFile() {
+			return this.file;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public void close() {
+
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	private static final class SpringBootDockerCmdExecFactory
+			extends DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl {
+
+		private SpringBootDockerCmdExecFactory() {
+			withClientRequestFilters(new ClientRequestFilter() {
+
+				@Override
+				public void filter(ClientRequestContext requestContext)
+						throws IOException {
+					// Workaround for https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/3821/
+					requestContext.getHeaders().add("Connection", "close");
+				}
+
+			});
+		}
+
+		private CopyToContainerCmdExec createCopyToContainerCmdExec() {
+			return new CopyToContainerCmdExec(getBaseResource(), getDockerClientConfig());
+		}
+
+	}
+
 }