--- title: Canonical joins Magma Foundation description: Canonical joins Magma Foundation and is contributing to open source private mobile networks ecosystem, making open, free and secure 5G a reality. url: https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-joins-magma-foundation?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Maciej Mazur](https://canonical.com/blog/author/mamazur "More about Maciej Mazur") 9 December 2021 # Canonical joins Magma Foundation [5g](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/5g) [magma](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/magma) [Telco](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/telco) --- Share the article We at [Canonical](http://www.canonical.com/), the company behind [Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com/), are pleased to join hands with the [Magma](https://www.magmacore.org/) Foundation. Magma connects the world to a faster network by providing operators an open, flexible, and extendable mobile core network solution. Its simplicity and low-cost structure empower innovators to build mobile networks that were never imagined before. We decided to support this open source project because of our wider [telco](https://ubuntu.com/telco) efforts. Our goal is to enable everyone to build an end-to-end private LTE or 5G based on open source tools. This is also the reason for Canonical committing efforts to projects, such as [OpenRAN](https://ubuntu.com/telco/openran), [OSM](https://ubuntu.com/telco/osm), and [OMEC](https://opennetworking.org/omec/). Magma Architecture We are starting with contributing our best technology pieces, and writing Juju charms for Magma, to make its deployment and Day 2 operations much easier. Magma charms allow users to deploy and manage this software on public clouds, bare metal machines, Kubernetes clusters, or OpenStack. Charms support lifecycle events, such as deploy, remove, reconfigure, or upgrade. You can also use custom actions, such as backup, restore, renew certificates, and so on. You can also use the greatest feature of charmed applications — effortless integration with the entire open source ecosystem of tools, such as logging, monitoring, alerting tools, and more. Magma enhanced with Juju Charms This will all be available to you soon. However, if you want to check the progress or contribute to our efforts, visit . Magma is mainly used as a part of private mobile networks solutions. If you want to know the big picture you can continue reading  ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### How telco companies can reduce 5G infrastructure costs with modern open source cloud-native technologies](https://canonical.com/blog/how-telco-companies-can-reduce-5g-infrastructure-costs-with-modern-open-source-cloud-native-technologies) 5G continues to transform the telecommunications landscape, enabling massive device density, edge computing, and new enterprise use cases. However, operators still face... [Benjamin Ryzman](https://canonical.com/blog/author/benjaminryzman) 8 December 2025 [### Canonical Kubernetes officially included in Sylva 1.5](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-kubernetes-officially-included-in-sylva-1-5) Sylva 1.5 becomes the first release to include Kubernetes 1.32, bringing the latest open source cloud-native capabilities to the European telecommunications industry. With the... [Benjamin Ryzman](https://canonical.com/blog/author/benjaminryzman) 13 November 2025 [### The next era of telco clouds: get open infrastructure choice with Sylva and Canonical Kubernetes](https://canonical.com/blog/the-next-era-of-telco-clouds-get-open-infrastructure-choice-with-sylva-and-canonical-kubernetes) Achieving vendor neutrality in telco clouds requires an infrastructure layer that respects open standards, without wrapping them in rigid platform layers. By combining upstream... [estelacarmona](https://canonical.com/blog/author/estelacarmona) 11 June 2026 [### Building new revenue streams: 3 strategic cloud opportunities for telcos in 2026](https://canonical.com/blog/new-telco-cloud-opportunity) PWC claimed the ‘fundamental challenge’ behind slowing growth is that telecom’s ‘core products and services’ are ‘becoming commodities.’ The way forward lies in modernizing and... [Isobel Kate Maxwell](https://canonical.com/blog/author/iso-maxwell) 10 February 2026