I recently helped to minimize the official Docker image "mongo" to run MongoDB in a Windows container: https://github.com/docker-library/mongo/blob/21a6f6cf3eff13a39b20c86224730a29823370ca/3.2/windows/windowsservercore/Dockerfile

And then I tried to put MongoDB into a Windows Nanoserver container, but the binaries do not start.

It would be great to have MongoDB running in Nanoserver as well.

If there is some progress please let me know. Otherwise I can try to investigate what's wrong running MongoDB in Nanoserver.