Just to make sure I'm understanding, you want to run docker containers on demand (and programmatically), but you want to run them on a single machine, so Kubern

Just to make sure I'm understanding, you want to run docker containers on demand (and programmatically), but you want to run them on a single machine, so Kubernetes feels like overkill, right? Your best bet might just be invoking the docker command-line tool directly from your code.