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title: Blog posts tagged "nova"
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# Blog posts tagged "nova"

#### [An nova-compute-lxd update](https://canonical.com/blog/an-nova-compute-lxd-update)

For the past couple of months, we have been working hard on adding new features to nova-compute-lxd (nclxd). The new features that have been added go beyond starting and stopping containers, to make it more useful for day to day use. An example is container migration: The above video shows a container migrating between two

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Cloud and server

#### [Introduction to nova-compute-lxd](https://canonical.com/blog/introduction-to-nova-compute-lxd)

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the container will look and feel like a regular VM – but will act like a container. LXD uses the same container technology found in the Linux kernel (cgroups, namespaces, LSM, etc). The

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Cloud and server