The new LXD container hypervisor in Ubuntu 16.04 looks and acts like a virtual machine, but it runs on bare metal. That means organizations can avoid the overhead they'd normally get from using a VM. "All you have to do is run jobs unchanged with LXD and get an immediate boost," says Anand Krishnan, head of Canonical's cloud division. "It's what we call a machine container, and it's good when virtual machines are too heavyweight but the environment doesn't lend itself to Docker." LXD is part of LXC 2.0, the latest release of the Linux Containers project.