I recently spent some time playing with Mesos, Marathon (the web ui + api for scheduling long-running jobs / services) and Chronos (the web ui + api for scheduling cron / batch jobs).

I did this on my Macbook, using Virtualbox, Vagrant, and this:

https://github.com/mesosphere/playa-mesos

^ I started with that, and then installed Chronos with apt-get in addition.

Specifically, for launching Docker containers, this was useful:

https://docs.mesosphere.com/tutorials/launch-docker-containe...

I didn't try Aurora but it seems it'd be an alternative to Marathon + Chronos (Mesos calls all of these "frameworks").