diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/ignite/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/ignite/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 89387e822d86..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/ignite/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, cni-plugins
-, buildGoModule
-, firecracker
-, containerd
-, runc
-, makeWrapper
-, fetchFromGitHub
-, git
-}:
-
-buildGoModule rec{
-  pname = "ignite";
-  version = "0.10.0";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "weaveworks";
-    repo = "ignite";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-WCgNh+iLtxLslzcHuIwVLZpUEhvBJFe1Y84PaPtbtcY=";
-    leaveDotGit = true;
-  };
-
-  vendorHash = null;
-
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    # ignite tries to run cni-plugins programs from /opt/cni/bin
-    substituteInPlace pkg/constants/dependencies.go \
-      --replace "/opt/cni/bin/loopback" ${cni-plugins}/bin/loopback \
-      --replace "/opt/cni/bin/bridge" ${cni-plugins}/bin/bridge
-
-    # ignite tries to run cni-plugins programs from /opt/cni/bin
-    substituteInPlace pkg/network/cni/cni.go \
-      --replace "/opt/cni/bin" ${cni-plugins}/bin
-
-    # fetchgit doesn't fetch tags from git repository so it's necessary to force IGNITE_GIT_VERSION to be ${version}
-    # also forcing git state to be clean because if it's dirty ignite will try to fetch the image weaveworks/ignite:dev
-    # which is not in docker.io, we want it to fetch the image weaveworks/ignite:v${version}
-    substituteInPlace hack/ldflags.sh \
-      --replace '$(git describe --tags --abbrev=14 "''${IGNITE_GIT_COMMIT}^{commit}" 2>/dev/null)' "v${version}" \
-      --replace 'IGNITE_GIT_TREE_STATE="dirty"' 'IGNITE_GIT_TREE_STATE="clean"'
-  '';
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    git
-    makeWrapper
-  ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    firecracker
-  ];
-
-  preBuild = ''
-    patchShebangs ./hack/ldflags.sh
-    export buildFlagsArray+=("-ldflags=$(./hack/ldflags.sh)")
-  '';
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    for prog in hack ignite ignited ignite-spawn; do
-        wrapProgram "$out/bin/$prog" --prefix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [ cni-plugins firecracker containerd runc ]}
-    done
-  '';
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Ignite a Firecracker microVM";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite";
-    license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ tfmoraes ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 9d4939c34cbf..6a9b88cd9b2a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   i3-gaps = i3; # Added 2023-01-03
   icedtea8_web = throw "'icedtea8_web' has been renamed to/replaced by 'adoptopenjdk-icedtea-web'"; # Converted to throw 2023-09-10
   icedtea_web = throw "'icedtea_web' has been renamed to/replaced by 'adoptopenjdk-icedtea-web'"; # Converted to throw 2023-09-10
+  ignite = throw "'ignite' has been removed as the upstream project was archived, please use 'flintlock' instead"; # Added 2024-01-07
   imag = throw "'imag' has been removed, upstream gone"; # Added 2023-01-13
   imagemagick7Big = imagemagickBig; # Added 2021-02-22
   imagemagick7 = imagemagick; # Added 2021-02-22
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2df02fe4415b..884710ac1b08 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9377,8 +9377,6 @@ with pkgs;
     irods
     irods-icommands;
 
-  ignite = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/ignite { };
-
   igmpproxy = callPackage ../tools/networking/igmpproxy { };
 
   ihaskell = callPackage ../development/tools/haskell/ihaskell/wrapper.nix {