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 c583b3271e..f052baf90b 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
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	sys-apps/gawk
 	sys-apps/gptfdisk
 	sys-apps/grep
+	sys-apps/ignition
 	sys-apps/iproute2
 	sys-apps/kexec-tools
 	sys-apps/keyutils
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
index 30715dc7dc..e65bd636c4 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/make.defaults
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ INSTALL_MASK="
   /etc/acpi
 "
 
+# Prevent 'ignition' binary from being installed from sys-apps/ignition binary package.
+PKG_INSTALL_MASK="
+  /usr/bin/ignition
+"
+
 # Keep the default languages small.
 # (not many things respect this though)
 LINGUAS="en"