- Snappy : Ubuntu Core, with a new mechanism for transactional app delivery and system updates ( "snappy" ). This is in direct competition with rpm-ostree from project atomic or NixOS
- Ironic + Crowbar for openstack : another step toward making bare metal provissioning as easy as provisioning VM
- Job packing in warehouse-scale computing : more VMs or jobs in more space .
- HPC aware VM placement : VMs packing for HPC use case
