diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9de6a9f359..6519fbccd1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
         "click>=6.6,<9.0",
         "croniter>=0.3.20,<4.0.0",
         "deprecated>=1.0,<2.0",
-        "docker>=5.0.3,<7.0.0",
+        "docker>=4.0.0,<7.0.0",
         "python-dateutil>=2.1",
         # Restrict grpcio and grpcio-status.  The 1.49.1 version pulls in a version of protobuf that is not compatible.
         # More details in https://github.com/flyteorg/flyte/issues/3006