Amahi now supports Docker. It is an open source software for automating the deployment of applications inside software containers. A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run it: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, settings.
For more information related to contianers refer to : https://www.docker.com/what-container
The idea was to get/build images of different applications and run them using docker on the hda. The benefit of using containers as opposed to the earlier method is that each container runs in an isolated environment. So they can each have different versions of different applications. For example we can have an app running on php5 and another app running on php7. Using this method if we had an image available for an app then we can directly run it using docker without any problems.
Architecture Overview : How it works? Diagram