alpine-3:15 gets unavailable intermittently

[chamodshehanka]

Sometimes alpine temporarily gets unavailable and once I retry it again that will works. Why this happening intermittently?

Failed GH Action - https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-distribution/runs/5193158887?check_suite_focus=true#step:2:71

   ---> Running in 34f141b93d8a
  fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.15/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
  fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.15/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
  WARNING: Ignoring https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.15/main: temporary error (try again later)
  WARNING: Ignoring https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.15/community: temporary error (try again later)
  ERROR: unable to select packages:
    bash (no such package):
      required by: world[bash]
  The command '/bin/sh -c apk --no-cache add bash' returned a non-zero code: 1
Error: Docker build failed with exit code 1

[ncopa]

Is this still an issue? we had issues with the alpine repository for an hour ow two a couple of days ago

[vimm0]

Yes, it is still happening with version alpine-3.17

5.664 fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.17/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
5.665 WARNING: Ignoring https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.17/main: temporary error (try again later)
10.67 WARNING: Ignoring https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.17/community: temporary error (try again later)
10.67 ERROR: unable to select packages:
10.68   bash (no such package):
10.68     required by: world[bash]