The technical challenge I'm trying to solve is to provide an off-line version of an API that runs on a laptop. This API would be primed with the appropriate data set from the cloud, then would be used off-line during data entry. Data would only be added, not modified or deleted during that time. Once back on-line, the cloud would be updated with the new data.
It looks like Docker has a technical solution that runs a Windows VM inside Windows, but what I'd love to have is a Linux VM running inside of Windows that would have a self-contained web server and database.