diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-admin/systemd-rest/files/systemd-rest.service b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-admin/systemd-rest/files/systemd-rest.service
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index 0000000000..03152da569
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-admin/systemd-rest/files/systemd-rest.service
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+[Service]
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/systemd-rest
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-admin/systemd-rest/systemd-rest-9999.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-admin/systemd-rest/systemd-rest-9999.ebuild
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index 0000000000..41b5cef4d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-admin/systemd-rest/systemd-rest-9999.ebuild
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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header:$
+#
+
+EAPI=2
+CROS_WORKON_PROJECT="coreos/systemd-rest"
+CROS_WORKON_LOCALNAME="systemd-rest"
+inherit toolchain-funcs cros-workon systemd
+
+DESCRIPTION="systemd over rest"
+HOMEPAGE="https://bitbucket.org/coreos/go-systemd"
+SRC_URI=""
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND=">=dev-lang/go-1.0.2"
+GOROOT="${ED}usr/$(get_libdir)/go"
+GOPKG="${PN}"
+
+src_compile() {
+	GOPATH="${S}" go build ${PN}
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dosbin ${S}/systemd-rest
+	systemd_dounit "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}.service
+	systemd_enable_service multi-user.target ${PN}.service
+}