diff --git a/internal/batches/docker/image.go b/internal/batches/docker/image.go
index 90fb7e3d89..ae5897a6ac 100644
--- a/internal/batches/docker/image.go
+++ b/internal/batches/docker/image.go
@@ -80,19 +80,10 @@ func (image *image) Ensure(ctx context.Context) error {
 				// Desktop VMs running out of memory, whereupon the Linux
 				// kernel's OOM killer sometimes chooses to kill components of
 				// Docker instead of processes within containers.
-				dctx, cancel, err := withFastCommandContext(ctx)
-				if err != nil {
-					return "", err
-				}
-				defer cancel()
-
 				args := []string{"image", "inspect", "--format", "{{ .Id }}", image.name}
-				out, err := exec.CommandContext(dctx, "docker", args...).CombinedOutput()
+				out, err := executeFastCommand(ctx, args...)
 				id := string(bytes.TrimSpace(out))
-
-				if errors.IsDeadlineExceeded(err) || errors.IsDeadlineExceeded(dctx.Err()) {
-					return "", newFastCommandTimeoutError(dctx, args...)
-				} else if err != nil {
+				if err != nil {
 					return "", err
 				}
 
diff --git a/internal/batches/docker/info.go b/internal/batches/docker/info.go
index a96397c943..9fe83c6ae7 100644
--- a/internal/batches/docker/info.go
+++ b/internal/batches/docker/info.go
@@ -6,24 +6,14 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 
 	"github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/lib/errors"
-
-	"github.com/sourcegraph/src-cli/internal/exec"
 )
 
 // CurrentContext returns the name of the current Docker context (not to be
 // confused with a Go context).
 func CurrentContext(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
-	dctx, cancel, err := withFastCommandContext(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	defer cancel()
-
 	args := []string{"context", "inspect", "--format", "{{ .Name }}"}
-	out, err := exec.CommandContext(dctx, "docker", args...).CombinedOutput()
-	if errors.IsDeadlineExceeded(err) || errors.IsDeadlineExceeded(dctx.Err()) {
-		return "", newFastCommandTimeoutError(dctx, args...)
-	} else if err != nil {
+	out, err := executeFastCommand(ctx, args...)
+	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 
@@ -37,17 +27,9 @@ func CurrentContext(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
 
 // NCPU returns the number of CPU cores available to Docker.
 func NCPU(ctx context.Context) (int, error) {
-	dctx, cancel, err := withFastCommandContext(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return 0, err
-	}
-	defer cancel()
-
 	args := []string{"info", "--format", "{{ .NCPU }}"}
-	out, err := exec.CommandContext(dctx, "docker", args...).CombinedOutput()
-	if errors.IsDeadlineExceeded(err) || errors.IsDeadlineExceeded(dctx.Err()) {
-		return 0, newFastCommandTimeoutError(dctx, args...)
-	} else if err != nil {
+	out, err := executeFastCommand(ctx, args...)
+	if err != nil {
 		return 0, err
 	}