diff --git a/.github/renovate.json5 b/.github/renovate.json5
index f86f04e..6c80001 100644
--- a/.github/renovate.json5
+++ b/.github/renovate.json5
@@ -125,8 +125,17 @@
       matchPackageNames: [
         'earthbuild/dind',
       ],
-      matchCurrentVersion: '/^alpine-.*/',
-      allowedVersions: '/^alpine-.*/',
+      matchCurrentVersion: '/^alpine-3\\.22-.*/',
+      allowedVersions: '/^alpine-3\\.22-.*/',
+      versioning: 'regex:^(?<compatibility>.*)-(?<major>\\d+\\.\\d+)-docker-(?<minor>\\d+)\\.(?<patch>\\d+)\\.(?<build>\\d+)-r(?<revision>\\d+)$',
+    },
+    {
+      groupName: 'docs-dind-images',
+      matchPackageNames: [
+        'earthbuild/dind',
+      ],
+      matchCurrentVersion: '/^alpine-3\\.23-.*/',
+      allowedVersions: '/^alpine-3\\.23-.*/',
       versioning: 'regex:^(?<compatibility>.*)-(?<major>\\d+\\.\\d+)-docker-(?<minor>\\d+)\\.(?<patch>\\d+)\\.(?<build>\\d+)-r(?<revision>\\d+)$',
     },
     {
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 625b28a..c2cee7e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
 
       matrix:
-        os: [alpine, ubuntu-20.04, ubuntu-23.04, ubuntu-24.04]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        os:
+          - alpine-3.22
+          - alpine-3.23
+          - ubuntu-20.04
+          - ubuntu-23.04
+          - ubuntu-24.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     permissions:
       contents: read
       packages: write
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 44bdee5..a393448 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,13 +9,15 @@ For information on how to use these images, please refer to [docker in EarthBuil
 ## Supported Distributions
 
 This image supports the following Linux distributions:
-* alpine
+* alpine:3.22
+* alpine:3.23
 * ubuntu:20.04
 * ubuntu:23.04
 * ubuntu:24.04
 
 For which the current latest tags (respectively) are:
 * `alpine-3.22-docker-28.3.3-r2`
+* `alpine-3.23-docker-29.1.2-r1`
 * `ubuntu-20.04-docker-28.1.1-1`
 * `ubuntu-23.04-docker-25.0.2-1`
 * `ubuntu-24.04-docker-28.5.1-1`
diff --git a/os/alpine/Earthfile b/os/alpine-3.22/Earthfile
similarity index 93%
rename from os/alpine/Earthfile
rename to os/alpine-3.22/Earthfile
index a64bbab..7374b68 100644
--- a/os/alpine/Earthfile
+++ b/os/alpine-3.22/Earthfile
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ ARG --global OS_IMAGE=alpine
 
 # renovate: datasource=docker depName=alpine
 ARG --global OS_VERSION=3.22
-# renovate: datasource=repology depName=alpine_3_22/docker versioning=loose
+# renovate: datasource=repology depName=alpine_3_22/docker
 ARG --global DOCKER_VERSION=28.3.3-r4
 
 # DIR_PATH is set to that common targets can call os specific targets. It should match the directory name this Earthfile is located in
-ARG --global DIR_PATH=$OS_IMAGE
+ARG --global DIR_PATH=$OS_IMAGE-$OS_VERSION
 
 # release builds the image using a new datetime as a suffix and run tests against the pushed image, then finally retag and push the image without the datetime suffix
 release:
diff --git a/os/alpine-3.23/Earthfile b/os/alpine-3.23/Earthfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ecd544
--- /dev/null
+++ b/os/alpine-3.23/Earthfile
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+VERSION --build-auto-skip 0.8
+
+PROJECT earthly-technologies/core
+
+FROM alpine
+
+IMPORT ../../common AS common
+
+ARG --global OS_IMAGE=alpine
+
+# renovate: datasource=docker depName=alpine
+ARG --global OS_VERSION=3.23
+# renovate: datasource=repology depName=alpine_3_23/docker
+ARG --global DOCKER_VERSION=29.1.2-r1
+
+# DIR_PATH is set to that common targets can call os specific targets. It should match the directory name this Earthfile is located in
+ARG --global DIR_PATH=$OS_IMAGE-$OS_VERSION
+
+# release builds the image using a new datetime as a suffix and run tests against the pushed image, then finally retag and push the image without the datetime suffix
+release:
+    RUN --no-cache date --utc +%Y%m%d%H%M%S > datetime
+    LET datetime="$(cat datetime)"
+    WAIT
+        BUILD --pass-args common+build-and-test --SUFFIX=$datetime
+    END
+    COPY --dir --pass-args common+get-image-info/image-info .
+    LET image_tag="$(cat image-info/tag)-$datetime"
+    BUILD --pass-args common+push-new-tag-multi-platform --TAG_WITH_DATE=$image_tag
+
+# test-build will build a test image that is pushed to a temporary registry and run tests against it
+test-build:
+    BUILD --pass-args common+build-and-test --IMAGE_NAME="dindtest"
+
+# build builds an dind:alpine image
+build:
+    BUILD --pass-args --platform=linux/amd64 --platform=linux/arm64 common+build
+
+# test runs test for a dind:alpine image
+# this is primarly used to run against a newly, temporariy image build by +test-build
+test:
+    BUILD --pass-args common+alpine-kind-test
+    BUILD --pass-args common+alpine-docker-compose-test
+    BUILD --pass-args common+test