With a post today, Alpine Linux says the infrastructure challenges it faced a year ago are now behind it, following the successful onboarding of new sponsors and the ongoing migration of core systems to a more distributed setup.
But let me recall the chronology. In early 2025, the project warned that the planned shutdown of Equinix Metal would directly affect its hosting, mirroring, and continuous integration infrastructure. At the time, Alpine Linux publicly appealed for help, stressing the risks to repository availability, build capacity, and overall project resilience.
Fortunately, looks like the response from the community and industry exceeded expectations, with multiple organisations offering bandwidth, hardware, and managed infrastructure.
After evaluating the proposals, the Alpine Linux team selected a new group of infrastructure partners. Several organisations have stepped in as Tier-1 mirror sponsors, forming the new backbone of the project’s refreshed global distribution network. These include Osso B.V., NETMOUNTAINS Group GmbH, Cherry Servers, and HorizonIQ.
On the CI side, new infrastructure sponsors include i3D.net, Cloudon, and Scaleway. So, with the new sponsors in place, Alpine Linux has begun migrating mirrors, CI systems, and development workloads to their new environments.
Alpine also emphasizes that community financial support has played a key role. Donations via Open Collective are used to cover gaps where in-kind infrastructure support is unavailable.
The result of all this is that the project now operates with a more distributed mirror network, a wider range of CI and compute sponsors, and stronger community involvement. According to the Alpine Linux team, this combination is intended to ensure that the distribution remains fast, secure, and dependable for the large number of systems that rely on it.
For more information, see Alpine’s announcement.
