diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1-r233.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1-r234.ebuild
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1-r233.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1-r234.ebuild
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
index 82a584897e..529931dadf 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	sys-apps/systemd
 	sys-apps/systemd-sysv-utils
 	sys-apps/util-linux
-	sys-fs/aufs-util
 	sys-fs/btrfs-progs
 	sys-fs/e2fsprogs
 	sys-fs/mdadm
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
index 3eafb47dbb..69cd385ea4 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.accept_keywords
@@ -46,9 +46,6 @@
 >=sys-apps/kexec-tools-2.0.4-r1 ~amd64
 >=sys-kernel/dracut-027-r3 ~amd64
 
-# Needed for docker
-=sys-fs/aufs-util-3.7.6 ~amd64
-
 # Needed by gsutil-3.34
 =dev-python/httplib2-0.8 ~amd64
 =dev-python/crcmod-1.7-r1 ~amd64
@@ -65,8 +62,6 @@
 =app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.0.8
 
 # Docker dependencies are needed
-=sys-fs/aufs-util-3* ~amd64
-=sys-fs/aufs-headers-3* ~amd64
 =dev-util/boost-build-1.52.0-r1 ~amd64
 
 # Fixes ruby dependency
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.provided b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.provided
index 547536d82c..7e87b34be8 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.provided
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.provided
@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@
 # even a simple mta (like ssmtp).  http://crosbug.com/5777
 mail-mta/ssmtp-2.64
 net-mail/mailbase-1
-sys-fs/aufs3-9999
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
index 14f8916352..dbbb72a080 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.use
@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ app-emulation/qemu	aio caps curl jpeg ncurses png python seccomp threads uuid vh
 dev-libs/libaio		static-libs
 cross-armv7a-cros-linux-gnueabi/gcc   hardfp
 cross-armv6j-cros-linux-gnueabi/gcc   hardfp -thumb
-# we need aufs and bridging in the kernel for docker
-sys-kernel/coreos-kernel aufs bridge
 # pciutils is required by flashrom / mosys which is required to be statically
 # compiled to reduce dependency during auto update.
 sys-apps/pciutils	static-libs
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/README b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/README
index 8ee417150e..6f5dba5e36 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/README
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/sys-kernel/coreos-kernel/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-The kernel tree is managed in git and is essentially the stable kernel + aufs.
+The kernel tree is managed in git and is just the latest stable kernel.
 
 To bump to a new version do the following:
 
@@ -24,9 +24,6 @@ To bump to a new version do the following:
 [remote "stable"]
 	url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable
 	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/stable/*
-[remote "aufs"]
-	url = http://git.code.sf.net/p/aufs/aufs3-linux
-	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/aufs/*
 ```
 
 3) git fetch --all
@@ -35,8 +32,6 @@ To bump to a new version do the following:
 
 4) git reset --hard v3.10.10
 
-5) git pull . aufs/aufs-3.10
-
 5a) apply any coreos-specific patches that are not yet upstream (i.e. 9p patch)
     that happened to be in a previous kernel branch.