diff --git a/app/controllers/katello/api/v2/content_uploads_controller.rb b/app/controllers/katello/api/v2/content_uploads_controller.rb
index d28e457c7ce..920025f2336 100644
--- a/app/controllers/katello/api/v2/content_uploads_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/katello/api/v2/content_uploads_controller.rb
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ class Api::V2::ContentUploadsController < Api::V2::ApiController
     param :content_type, RepositoryTypeManager.uploadable_content_types(false).map(&:label), :required => false, :desc => N_("content type ('deb', 'docker_manifest', 'file', 'ostree_ref', 'rpm', 'srpm')")
     def create
       fail Katello::Errors::InvalidRepositoryContent, _("Cannot upload Ansible collections.") if @repository.ansible_collection?
+      fail Katello::Errors::InvalidRepositoryContent, _("Cannot upload container content via Hammer/API. Use podman push instead.") if @repository.docker?
       content_type = params[:content_type] || ::Katello::RepositoryTypeManager.find(@repository.content_type)&.default_managed_content_type&.label
       RepositoryTypeManager.check_content_matches_repo_type!(@repository, content_type)
       if ::Katello::RepositoryTypeManager.generic_content_type?(content_type)
diff --git a/lib/katello/repository_types/docker.rb b/lib/katello/repository_types/docker.rb
index 2cfc69629d9..b73a3c33cba 100644
--- a/lib/katello/repository_types/docker.rb
+++ b/lib/katello/repository_types/docker.rb
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
                :priority => 1,
                :pulp3_service_class => ::Katello::Pulp3::DockerManifest,
                :removable => true,
-               :uploadable => true,
                :primary_content => true
   content_type Katello::DockerManifestList,
                :priority => 2,
diff --git a/test/controllers/api/v2/content_uploads_controller_test.rb b/test/controllers/api/v2/content_uploads_controller_test.rb
index 171571c8033..f917920272e 100644
--- a/test/controllers/api/v2/content_uploads_controller_test.rb
+++ b/test/controllers/api/v2/content_uploads_controller_test.rb
@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ def test_create_generic_upload_request
       assert_response :success
     end
 
+    def test_create_container_upload_request
+      container_repo = katello_repositories(:busybox)
+      post :create, params: { :repository_id => container_repo.id, :size => 100, :checksum => 'test_checksum2' }
+      assert_response :error
+      assert_match 'Cannot upload container content via Hammer/API. Use podman push instead.', @response.body
+    end
+
     def test_create_collection_upload_request
       ansible_collection_repo = katello_repositories(:pulp3_ansible_collection_1)
       post :create, params: { :repository_id => ansible_collection_repo.id, :size => 100, :checksum => 'test_checksum' }
diff --git a/test/controllers/api/v2/repositories_controller_test.rb b/test/controllers/api/v2/repositories_controller_test.rb
index 430838cf9f8..7c704194b59 100644
--- a/test/controllers/api/v2/repositories_controller_test.rb
+++ b/test/controllers/api/v2/repositories_controller_test.rb
@@ -929,8 +929,8 @@ def test_upload_content_bad_type
       post :upload_content, params: { :id => @repository.id, :content_type => 'cheese' }
 
       assert_response 422
-      response =  "{\"displayMessage\":\"Invalid params provided - content_type must be one of deb,docker_manifest,file,ostree_ref,python_package,rpm,srpm\"," \
-        "\"errors\":[\"Invalid params provided - content_type must be one of deb,docker_manifest,file,ostree_ref,python_package,rpm,srpm\"]}"
+      response =  "{\"displayMessage\":\"Invalid params provided - content_type must be one of deb,file,ostree_ref,python_package,rpm,srpm\"," \
+        "\"errors\":[\"Invalid params provided - content_type must be one of deb,file,ostree_ref,python_package,rpm,srpm\"]}"
       assert_match response, @response.body
     end