Docker Machine alone knocks out the entire list of hosts you laid out: https://docs.docker.com/machine/ https://docs.docker.com/machine/ For more sophisticated

Docker Machine alone knocks out the entire list of hosts you laid out: https://docs.docker.com/machine/ https://docs.docker.com/machine/ For more sophisticated scheduling needs there is http://www.replicated.com/ http://www.replicated.com/, https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/ https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/, and https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/ https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/ Related to what you say about "don't VM's solve this problem?" is a project called https://hyper.sh https://hyper.sh. They're coming at it from the angle that if VM's can boot really fast, containers are a moot point.