try (GenericContainer<?> genericContainer = new GenericContainer<>("alpine:3.7")) {
    genericContainer
            .withCommand("false") // exit quickly
            .withExposedPorts(1234)
            .waitingFor(Wait.forListeningPort().withStartupTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(1000)))
            .start(); // should fail quickly
}

$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                               COMMAND             CREATED              STATUS                          PORTS                     NAMES
a8eb2b690815        alpine:3.7                          "false"             About a minute ago   Exited (1) About a minute ago                             gifted_northcutt
e9ce5b30960c        quay.io/testcontainers/ryuk:0.2.3   "/app"              About a minute ago   Up About a minute               0.0.0.0:33383->8080/tcp   testcontainers-ryuk-7cf21936-f4ce-49ac-9ab8-6d278dcb07c0