diff --git a/alpine/APKBUILD.in b/alpine/APKBUILD.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..33c2859245
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alpine/APKBUILD.in
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Maintainer: Arthur Jones <arthur.jones@riverbed.com>
+pkgname=frr
+pkgver=@VERSION@
+pkgrel=0
+pkgdesc="Free Range Routing is a fork of quagga"
+url="https://frrouting.org/"
+arch="all"
+license="GPL-2.0"
+depends="iproute2 json-c c-ares ipsec-tools iproute2"
+makedepends="ncurses-dev net-snmp-dev gawk texinfo perl
+    acct autoconf automake bash
+    binutils binutils-libs bison bsd-compat-headers build-base
+    c-ares c-ares-dev ca-certificates cryptsetup-libs curl
+    device-mapper-libs expat fakeroot flex fortify-headers gdbm
+    git gmp isl json-c-dev kmod lddtree libacl libatomic libattr
+    libblkid libburn libbz2 libc-dev libcap libcurl libedit libffi libgcc
+    libgomp libisoburn libisofs libltdl libressl libssh2
+    libstdc++ libtool libuuid linux-headers lzip lzo m4 make mkinitfs mpc1
+    mpfr3 mtools musl-dev ncurses-libs ncurses-terminfo ncurses-terminfo-base
+    patch pax-utils pcre perl pkgconf python2 python2-dev readline
+    readline-dev sqlite-libs squashfs-tools sudo tar texinfo xorriso xz-libs"
+subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-doc $pkgname-dbg"
+source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
+
+builddir="$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver
+
+build() {
+	cd "$builddir"
+	./configure --prefix=/usr || return 1
+	make || return 1
+}
+
+package() {
+	cd "$builddir"
+	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install || return 1
+}
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0d6c99acfa..e85d19f687 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -396,6 +396,8 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(rpki,
   AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-rpki], [enable RPKI prefix validation support]))
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([clippy-only],
   AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-clippy-only], [Only build clippy]))
+AC_ARG_ENABLE([numeric_version],
+  AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-numeric-version], [Only numeric digits allowed in version (for Alpine)]))
 
 AS_IF([test "${enable_clippy_only}" != "yes"], [
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(json-c/json.h)
@@ -647,6 +649,14 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(MULTIPATH_NUM, $MPATH_NUM, Maximum number of paths for a rout
 
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(VTYSH_PAGER, "$VTYSH_PAGER", [What pager to use])
 
+dnl ------------------------------------
+dnl Alpine only accepts numeric versions
+dnl ------------------------------------
+if test "x${enable_numeric_version}" != "x" ; then
+  VERSION="`echo ${VERSION} | tr -c -d '[[.0-9]]'`"
+  PACKAGE_VERSION="`echo ${PACKAGE_VERSION} | tr -c -d '[[.0-9]]'`"
+fi
+
 dnl -----------------------------------
 dnl Add extra version string to package
 dnl name, string and version fields.
@@ -1872,6 +1882,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
 	  redhat/frr.spec
 	  debianpkg/Makefile
 	  debianpkg/changelog
+	  alpine/APKBUILD
 	  snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml
 	  lib/version.h
 	  tests/lib/cli/test_cli.refout