Not entirely sure what you're asking, but you should probably look into "schedulers" and other tools built on top of such ecosystems. Here are a few to get you started:
Docker ecosystem: swarm and/or compose
Mesos ecosystem: Chronos, Aurora, Marathon
CoreOS ecosystem: fleet
Hashicorp: Terraform
Amazon Container Service: works with the above, will likely build their own simple one in the near future
This is less about embedding images and about managing/"scheduling" them
Docker ecosystem: swarm and/or compose
Mesos ecosystem: Chronos, Aurora, Marathon
CoreOS ecosystem: fleet
Hashicorp: Terraform
Amazon Container Service: works with the above, will likely build their own simple one in the near future
This is less about embedding images and about managing/"scheduling" them
Edit: Zikes mentioned Kubernetes, as well.