Apache Mesos and Marathon
Apache Mesos is an open source project, and was originally designed to make a cluster of servers or nodes look like one single big server from the outside. Mesos is software that makes the management of computer clusters simple. Users of Mesos should not have to care about individual servers, but just assume they have a gigantic pool of resources at their disposal, which corresponds to the aggregate of all the resources of all the nodes in the cluster.
Mesos, in IT terms, is already pretty old, at least compared to the other orchestrators. It was first publicly presented in 2009, but at that time, of course, it wasn't designed to run containers, since Docker didn't even exist yet. Similar to what Docker does with ...
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