diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index b9505e3c8e80..74e4a5fe63ca 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -145,3 +145,6 @@
 [submodule "src/supervisor"]
 	path = src/supervisor
 	url = https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor
+[submodule "platform/alpinevs"]
+	path = platform/alpinevs
+	url = https://github.com/sonic-net/sonic-alpine.git
diff --git a/platform/alpinevs b/platform/alpinevs
new file mode 160000
index 000000000000..c548fcdb8b96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/platform/alpinevs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit c548fcdb8b96b26fd27af6587b20845bad0458a4