Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for deployment of a container in a network-constrained environment. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to access a first unencrypted shared file, access a second encrypted file, create a third file by integrating contents of the first file and the second file, the third file being a Virtual Execution Environment (VEE) image, store the third file, and deploy the third file to a container runtime environment for execution.