diff --git a/.github/workflows/budibase_ci.yml b/.github/workflows/budibase_ci.yml
index fd4d8cf7c8..7d09451614 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/budibase_ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/budibase_ci.yml
@@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ jobs:
 
   test-libraries:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    env:
-      REUSE_CONTAINERS: true
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -150,8 +148,6 @@ jobs:
 
   test-server:
     runs-on: budi-tubby-tornado-quad-core-150gb
-    env:
-      REUSE_CONTAINERS: true
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
diff --git a/globalSetup.ts b/globalSetup.ts
index 115796c395..0fd5dda47c 100644
--- a/globalSetup.ts
+++ b/globalSetup.ts
@@ -4,13 +4,11 @@ import lockfile from "proper-lockfile"
 
 export default async function setup() {
   const lockPath = path.resolve(__dirname, "globalSetup.ts")
-  if (process.env.REUSE_CONTAINERS) {
-    // If you run multiple tests at the same time, it's possible for the CouchDB
-    // shared container to get started multiple times despite having an
-    // identical reuse hash. To avoid that, we do a filesystem-based lock so
-    // that only one globalSetup.ts is running at a time.
-    lockfile.lockSync(lockPath)
-  }
+  // If you run multiple tests at the same time, it's possible for the CouchDB
+  // shared container to get started multiple times despite having an
+  // identical reuse hash. To avoid that, we do a filesystem-based lock so
+  // that only one globalSetup.ts is running at a time.
+  lockfile.lockSync(lockPath)
 
   try {
     let couchdb = new GenericContainer("budibase/couchdb:v3.2.1-sqs")
@@ -28,20 +26,15 @@ export default async function setup() {
           target: "/opt/couchdb/etc/local.d/test-couchdb.ini",
         },
       ])
+      .withReuse()
       .withWaitStrategy(
         Wait.forSuccessfulCommand(
           "curl http://budibase:budibase@localhost:5984/_up"
         ).withStartupTimeout(20000)
       )
 
-    if (process.env.REUSE_CONTAINERS) {
-      couchdb = couchdb.withReuse()
-    }
-
     await couchdb.start()
   } finally {
-    if (process.env.REUSE_CONTAINERS) {
-      lockfile.unlockSync(lockPath)
-    }
+    lockfile.unlockSync(lockPath)
   }
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index fcd6989b6c..091bde4bde 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     "dev:all": "yarn run kill-all && lerna run --stream dev",
     "dev:built": "yarn run kill-all && cd packages/server && yarn dev:stack:up && cd ../../ && lerna run --stream dev:built",
     "dev:docker": "./scripts/devDocker.sh",
-    "test": "REUSE_CONTAINERS=1 lerna run --concurrency 1 --stream test --stream",
+    "test": "lerna run --concurrency 1 --stream test --stream",
     "lint:eslint": "eslint packages --max-warnings=0",
     "lint:prettier": "prettier --check \"packages/**/*.{js,ts,svelte}\" && prettier --write \"examples/**/*.{js,ts,svelte}\"",
     "lint": "yarn run lint:eslint && yarn run lint:prettier",
diff --git a/packages/server/src/integrations/tests/utils/index.ts b/packages/server/src/integrations/tests/utils/index.ts
index 5034b5a8db..0399a506de 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/integrations/tests/utils/index.ts
+++ b/packages/server/src/integrations/tests/utils/index.ts
@@ -65,9 +65,7 @@ export async function rawQuery(ds: Datasource, sql: string): Promise<any> {
 }
 
 export async function startContainer(container: GenericContainer) {
-  if (process.env.REUSE_CONTAINERS) {
-    container = container.withReuse()
-  }
+  container = container.withReuse()
 
   const startedContainer = await container.start()