diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/amd64/generic/dev/parent b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/amd64/generic/dev/parent
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..35ac69992e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/amd64/generic/dev/parent
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+..
+:coreos/targets/generic/dev
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/amd64/generic/prod/parent b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/amd64/generic/prod/parent
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..89b629a19e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/amd64/generic/prod/parent
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+..
+:coreos/targets/generic/prod
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/dev/README b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/dev/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..40537d4fcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/dev/README
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Profile settings specific to "dev" images and containers.
+
+Settings here must *ONLY* influence installing binary packages and never
+change build time settings like USE or CFLAGS because binary packages
+are shared between dev and prod, dev just includes more stuff.
+
+For example, INSTALL_MASK and package.provided are ok.
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/prod/README b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/prod/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a7b67190ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/generic/prod/README
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Profile settings specific to "prod" images.
+
+Settings here must *ONLY* influence installing binary packages and never
+change build time settings like USE or CFLAGS because binary packages
+are shared between dev and prod, dev just includes more stuff.
+
+For example, INSTALL_MASK and package.provided are ok.
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/profiles.desc b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/profiles.desc
index 0eb87270f8..0385f806b2 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/profiles.desc
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/profiles.desc
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 amd64   coreos/amd64/generic                dev
+amd64   coreos/amd64/generic/dev            dev
+amd64   coreos/amd64/generic/prod           dev
 amd64   coreos/amd64/sdk                    dev
 amd64   default/linux/amd64/10.0            dev
 amd64   default/linux/amd64/10.0/coreos     dev