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I'm biased: use a full PaaS. I like Cloud Foundry because I've worked on it. OpenShift is another alternative.

Pretty sure openshift v3 is built on top of kubernetes

And Cloud Foundry can run Docker containers.

The point is that both are platforms. Application developers shouldn't really need to care about the internals of a PaaS, for the same reason that I don't really care about the internals of the Linux kernel.

Yes: Docker, Kubernetes, and etcd

I've been using Deis (http://deis.io/) which is built on top of Docker and inspired by Heroku. I think it's a bit more "lightweight" than Cloud Foundry but really pleased so far. I had a few issues but the Deis team was always quick to help and fix bugs.

If you want a lightweight Cloud Foundry, try Lattice[0]. It's specifically intended to allow developers to experiment with the core Cloud Foundry components (routing, scheduling/placement and log draining) with very low overhead.

[0] http://lattice.cf/

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