Follow-Up: New Sponsors Strengthen Alpine Linux’s Infrastructure and CI Ecosystem

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 but 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 reviewing all proposals carefully and assessing long-term sustainability, technical capabilities, and geographic coverage, we have now selected a set of new infrastructure partners.

We are also very grateful for 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 also needed new partners to support our CI runners, development systems, and general infrastructure workloads. We are pleased to announce that the following organisations have 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 now underway. As components transition to their new hosting environments, we expect improvements including:

The result would be a stronger, more resiliant Alpine Linux

What began as a major risk to the project has become an opportunity to build a more redundant and future-proof infrastructure. With the addition of these new partners, Alpine Linux now benefits from:

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 because of 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 like to sponsor Alpine Linux as well, we are always looking for additional sponsors. Please send an email to infra@alpinelinux.org with details.