diff --git a/2.7/alpine/Dockerfile b/2.7/alpine/Dockerfile
index 2e2a5a064..49e18ed15 100644
--- a/2.7/alpine/Dockerfile
+++ b/2.7/alpine/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM alpine:3.4
+FROM pipill/armhf-alpine:3.4
 
 # ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
 ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
 # > At the moment, setting "LANG=C" on a Linux system *fundamentally breaks Python 3*, and that's not OK.
 ENV LANG C.UTF-8
 
+RUN [ "cross-build-start" ]
+
 # install ca-certificates so that HTTPS works consistently
 # the other runtime dependencies for Python are installed later
 RUN apk add --no-cache ca-certificates
@@ -106,4 +108,6 @@ RUN set -ex; \
 		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' +; \
 	rm -f get-pip.py
 
+RUN [ "cross-build-end" ]
+
 CMD ["python2"]