diff --git a/test/system/libs/helpers.bash b/test/system/libs/helpers.bash
index 84aab2ad5..f2f527d17 100644
--- a/test/system/libs/helpers.bash
+++ b/test/system/libs/helpers.bash
@@ -31,8 +31,12 @@ readonly ROOTLESS_PODMAN_RUNROOT_DIR="$BATS_SUITE_TMPDIR/runroot"
 readonly DOCKER_REG_ROOT="$BATS_SUITE_TMPDIR/docker-registry-root"
 readonly DOCKER_REG_CERTS_DIR="$BATS_SUITE_TMPDIR/certs"
 readonly DOCKER_REG_AUTH_DIR="$BATS_SUITE_TMPDIR/auth"
-readonly DOCKER_REG_URI="localhost:50000"
 readonly DOCKER_REG_NAME="docker-registry"
+# Store the registry URI in a file so that loading this script from different
+# test processes will still use the same URI for the same test suite run. The
+# contents of the file are set when setting up the local Docker registry.
+readonly DOCKER_REG_URI_FILE="$BATS_SUITE_TMPDIR/docker-reg-uri"
+DOCKER_REG_URI="$(cat "$DOCKER_REG_URI_FILE" 2>/dev/null || true)"
 
 # Podman and Toolbx commands to run
 readonly TOOLBX="${TOOLBX:-$(command -v toolbox)}"
@@ -163,10 +167,6 @@ function _setup_docker_registry() {
     -subj '/' \
     -out "${DOCKER_REG_CERTS_DIR}"/domain.crt
 
-  # Add certificate to Podman's trusted certificates (rootless)
-  mkdir --parents "$HOME"/.config/containers/certs.d/"${DOCKER_REG_URI}"
-  cp "${DOCKER_REG_CERTS_DIR}"/domain.crt "$HOME"/.config/containers/certs.d/"${DOCKER_REG_URI}"/domain.crt
-
   # Create a registry user
   # username: user; password: user
   mkdir --parents "${DOCKER_REG_AUTH_DIR}"
@@ -188,18 +188,28 @@ function _setup_docker_registry() {
     --env REGISTRY_HTTP_TLS_KEY=/certs/domain.key \
     --name "${DOCKER_REG_NAME}" \
     --privileged \
-    --publish 50000:5000 \
+    --publish 5000 \
     --rm \
     --volume "${DOCKER_REG_AUTH_DIR}":/auth \
     --volume "${DOCKER_REG_CERTS_DIR}":/certs \
     "${IMAGES[docker-reg]}"
 
+  # Determine the randomly assigned host port and persist the DOCKER_REG_URI to a file
+  local docker_reg_port
+  docker_reg_port="$(podman --root "${DOCKER_REG_ROOT}" port "${DOCKER_REG_NAME}" 5000)"
+  DOCKER_REG_URI="localhost:${docker_reg_port##*:}"
+  echo "$DOCKER_REG_URI" > "$DOCKER_REG_URI_FILE"
+
+  # Add certificate to Podman's trusted certificates (rootless)
+  mkdir --parents "$HOME"/.config/containers/certs.d/"${DOCKER_REG_URI}"
+  cp "${DOCKER_REG_CERTS_DIR}"/domain.crt "$HOME"/.config/containers/certs.d/"${DOCKER_REG_URI}"/domain.crt
+
   _wait_for_docker_registry
 
   podman login --authfile "${BATS_SUITE_TMPDIR}/authfile.json" --username user --password user "${DOCKER_REG_URI}"
 
   # Add fedora-toolbox:34 image to the registry
-  skopeo --command-timeout 60s copy \
+  skopeo --command-timeout 120s copy \
     --dest-authfile "${BATS_SUITE_TMPDIR}/authfile.json" \
     dir:"${IMAGE_CACHE_DIR}"/fedora-toolbox-34 \
     docker://"${DOCKER_REG_URI}"/fedora-toolbox:34
@@ -371,7 +381,7 @@ function pull_distro_image() {
   fi
 
   # https://github.com/containers/skopeo/issues/547 for the options for containers-storage
-  run skopeo --command-timeout 60s copy \
+  run skopeo --command-timeout 120s copy \
         "dir:${IMAGE_CACHE_DIR}/${image_archive}" \
         "containers-storage:[overlay@$TOOLBX_ROOTLESS_STORAGE_PATH+$TOOLBX_ROOTLESS_STORAGE_PATH]${image}"
 
@@ -405,7 +415,7 @@ function pull_default_image_and_copy() {
   image="${IMAGES[$distro]}:$version"
 
   # https://github.com/containers/skopeo/issues/547 for the options for containers-storage
-  run skopeo --command-timeout 60s copy \
+  run skopeo --command-timeout 120s copy \
         "containers-storage:[overlay@$TOOLBX_ROOTLESS_STORAGE_PATH+$TOOLBX_ROOTLESS_STORAGE_PATH]$image" \
         "containers-storage:[overlay@$TOOLBX_ROOTLESS_STORAGE_PATH+$TOOLBX_ROOTLESS_STORAGE_PATH]$image-copy"