[hammerdr]

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

Edit: Zikes mentioned Kubernetes, as well.

[jacques_chester]

There's also Lattice: https://github.com/pivotal-cf-experimental/lattice

Which is extracted the next generation runtime of Cloud Foundry, known as Diego.

[Gigablah]

Terraform is the odd one out; it's an "infrastructure as code" tool, like Amazon CloudFormation but with pluggable providers.