diff --git a/alpine-matrix/build.sh b/alpine-matrix/build.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+ROOTFS=rootfs
+
+wget http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.9/releases/x86_64/alpine-minirootfs-3.9.0-x86_64.tar.gz
+mkdir -p $ROOTFS
+
+tar xf alpine-minirootfs-3.9.0-x86_64.tar.gz -C $ROOTFS/ \
+    ./etc/apk ./etc/os-release ./usr ./lib ./bin ./sbin ./var
+
+mkdir -p $ROOTFS/etc/systemd/system \
+         $ROOTFS/var/{lib,run,tmp} \
+         $ROOTFS/{dev,tmp,proc,root,run,sys} \
+         $ROOTFS/{var/lib,var/log,etc}/synapse
+touch    $ROOTFS/etc/machine-id $ROOTFS/etc/resolv.conf
+
+cp install.sh $ROOTFS/root/
+sudo systemd-nspawn -D $ROOTFS/ /bin/sh /root/install.sh
+
+cp *.service $ROOTFS/etc/systemd/system/
+
+mksquashfs $ROOTFS/ synapse.raw
diff --git a/alpine-matrix/install.sh b/alpine-matrix/install.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+apk --no-cache add --virtual .synapse-build \
+    build-base \
+    git \
+    libevent-dev \
+    libffi-dev \
+    libjpeg-turbo-dev \
+    libressl-dev \
+    libxslt-dev \
+    linux-headers \
+    npm \
+    python3-dev \
+    zlib-dev
+
+pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools
+pip3 install https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tarball/master
+pip3 install mautrix-telegram
+
+npm install matrix-appservice-irc --global
+
+apk del .synapse-build
+
+# Runtime packages.
+apk --no-cache add \
+    libjpeg-turbo \
+    libmagic \
+    libressl2.7-libssl \
+    nodejs \
+    python3
+
+find /usr -name "__pycache__" -exec rm -rf {} +
+find /usr -name "*.pyc" -exec rm {} +
+rm -rf /root/.cache \
+       /root/.config \
+       /root/.npm \
+       /etc/apk
diff --git a/alpine-matrix/synapse.service b/alpine-matrix/synapse.service
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+[Unit]
+Description=Synapse Matrix homeserver
+After=network-online.target
+Requires=network-online.target
+
+[Service]
+Environment=LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+Environment=SYNAPSE_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
+Environment=PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
+
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 -m synapse.app.homeserver -c /etc/synapse/homeserver.yaml
+ExecStop=/usr/bin/synctl stop /etc/synapse/homeserver.yaml
+
+StateDirectory=synapse
+ConfigurationDirectory=synapse