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This sounds like a world of pain, is anything preventing you just installing Linux? On another device maybe?

Thats what I'm starting to consider... another device, w Debian Desktop installed, or just a Pi w default PiOS. I'm starting to wonder how mature the container software framework is? I know VMs more than I know Containers. Containers "sound" nice, but the tools seem overly complicated.

I remember facing the same difficulties 3-4 years ago as a Windows user and constantly needing to wipe and refresh VMs. Containers are much "lighter" in terms of resource consumption and have this magical ability to just work, with the caveat that everything just works best on Linux. These tools (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) are primarily built, run, used and supported on Linux-like operating systems, and in 99% of cases only ever run in production on Linux hosts. For me it helped a lot to get my work system more closely in line with that, things tend to work better when you're using the right tools for the job. I recommend getting a cheap second system like an old Lenovo and install Linux on it. After a few weeks you won't even use your Windows device for development anymore 😉

Bash all you want on Win/MS... I much prefer Linux, would NEVER run Win prod servers. My QNAP NAS OS is obv based on Linux. I only run Win11 for other reasons. I'm would only ever run Containers under Linux. Win is restricted to my "PC" use. Good to know re Containers & Linux... not surprised.