[stonenoodles]

Is there an easy way to achieve on-demand docker containers this way? As I understand this, for a private setup, I'd have to code the initialisation and run Kubernetes as well? Might be a noob question, but i have a few containers which are really resource intensive and spin them up manually when needed.

Possibly I'm not the right audience, but a guide on how to get your current docker setup incorporated into your service might be useful for people wanting to give it a spin.

[paulgb]

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.