A year ago, we announced that Equinix Metal’s sunset would directly impact Alpine Linux’s hosting, mirroring, and CI infrastructure. We reached out to the community with a simple, urgent message: we needed new partners to help sustain and grow the systems that keep Alpine Linux fast, secure, and globally available. The response exceeded all expectations.
A Wave of Support From the Community
In the weeks following our announcement, numerous organisations contacted us with offers of help: from high-bandwidth servers, to colocation space, to fully managed compute resources. We are grateful to every organisation that reached out: your support shows how widely Alpine Linux is used, and how deeply the project matters to the open-source world.
After carefully reviewing all proposals, assessing long-term sustainability, technical capabilities, and geographic coverage, we have selected our new infrastructure partners.
We are very grateful to all the community members and companies who jumped in and donated to us through opencollective. These funds allow us to fill in any gaps in the future.
New Tier-1 Mirror Sponsors
These providers now form the backbone of Alpine Linux’s refreshed global mirror infrastructure:
Osso B.V.
OSSO specializes in managed Kubernetes, security, supporting open source stacks with in-depth expertise on its independent infrastructure (AS43366). Happily strengthening Alpine’s presence with server capacity and connectivity close to Alpine’s core team.
NETMOUNTAINS® Group GmbH
Offering strong bandwidth and dependable hosting capacity out of Germany, improving central European distribution.
Cherry Servers
Delivering high-performance bare-metal servers with generous bandwidth for a project that pushes hundreds of terabytes per month.
HorizonIQ
Providing additional infrastructure resources to strengthen and expand Alpine’s mirror network.
Together, these sponsors ensure that Alpine Linux’s repository distribution remains fast, resilient, and globally reachable.
New CI and Infrastructure Resource Sponsors
In addition to mirroring, Alpine Linux needed new partners to support CI runners, development systems, and general infrastructure workloads. We are pleased to announce that the following organisations stepped in to strengthen this side of our ecosystem:
i3D.net
A global infrastructure provider offering fast, low-latency compute resources that will help accelerate CI and development workflow performance.
Cloudon
Supporting Alpine with flexible cloud resources that can adapt to the project’s evolving infrastructure needs.
Scaleway
Contributing CI resources to support the riscv64 platform and decrease waiting times.
Migration Progress and Improvements
With new sponsors in place, infrastructure migrations are underway. As we transition to new environments, we expect improvements including:
- Increased resources available for mirrors, CI and development
- Reduced reliance on a single sponsor
The result is a stronger, more resilient Alpine Linux.
What we initially viewed as a major risk to the project has in fact become an opportunity to build a more redundant and future-proof infrastructure. With the addition of these new partners, Alpine Linux now benefits from:
- A distributed network of mirror providers
- A diverse set of CI and compute sponsors
- A stronger and more community-backed foundation
This marks an important step forward in ensuring Alpine Linux remains secure, fast, and dependable for millions of users and downstream systems.
Our sincere gratitude goes out to
And to every other organisation that contacted us with offers of help, thank you! Alpine Linux thrives thanks to a strong community and generous contributors, either financially or by providing servers and hosting. Your support ensures we continue to deliver a minimal, secure, and efficient Linux distribution for everyone. If you would like to sponsor Alpine Linux as well, we are always open. Please send an email to infra@alpinelinux.org with details.