diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/containerd/Manifest b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/containerd/Manifest
index 301b1e7992..eb175be3c5 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/containerd/Manifest
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/containerd/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST containerd-0.2.5.tar.gz 1003500 SHA256 88e099af66b50abe7f2159f13bdab793fa5199d8d5b9a9ef7a68171abb4359be SHA512 ba1e074bb7556a7c4be4d68dc62aa2fa4b823682c209d1609c1f11518a7b7167139ea159d31e0b21ba190d83115a67e5e45b54b6a4770742d49e9e561309551f WHIRLPOOL eb3622ba99c4d4806bda9a45853422a5b0b884869ed3be4c3caec4c20f49027e8db78b9885eca7bc83a0f3b08e9a66eca950390f0eda1ef2535fd3ab41623bf4
+DIST containerd-0.2.6.tar.gz 1020572 SHA256 a67c4153ac5ae26b9d11daac133b90cba059ba16de7579e39c3e82bcda856493 SHA512 41018bda556a3ddfb1bd3a16e642548ba06f413b13fd1488e731896e277ba6c84a393ebd5de067ecaeccc695297a2b74edf22e5a3fe8f2e3eadf78d080bdeff6 WHIRLPOOL 98f64c888ea580074e51b91311ab186291cb2d3ecc9f178d828687dbb60b35104237041699b6125cf026edd245459a052fda1801ac3cd7e1efe34606c3d9a4eb
 DIST containerd-0.2.9_p27.tar.gz 1140788 SHA256 4d2b6e30bcc6c4bb901d6b9f19b5ac1d4a2d9b17075a9b1f110102920d01f64a SHA512 c749bda691197ec8a7603db9ad92f2800a3f065143430a660333b7862518deb4c158a1c1fd01671dff438b40988d4a64d8f06bab05496b8728c6e2f57cd7da0a WHIRLPOOL 75cb3467a94af50bef52377f309d7c85386475789fab3d2758679f022b516735728a1ac2c54307954a14100c4f84059d8fd5e8376270fdd69e572cff43453fa0
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/containerd/containerd-0.2.6.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/containerd/containerd-0.2.6.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1bb88241de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/containerd/containerd-0.2.6.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+GITHUB_URI="github.com/docker/containerd"
+COREOS_GO_PACKAGE="${GITHUB_URI}"
+COREOS_GO_VERSION="go1.7"
+
+EGIT_COMMIT="4ab9917febca54791c5f071a9d1f404867857fcc" # v0.2.6
+SRC_URI="https://${GITHUB_URI}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 arm64"
+
+inherit coreos-go systemd
+
+DESCRIPTION="A daemon to control runC"
+HOMEPAGE="https://containerd.tools"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="hardened +seccomp"
+
+DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND=">=app-emulation/docker-runc-1.0.0_rc2
+	seccomp? ( sys-libs/libseccomp )"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/${P}/src/${COREOS_GO_PACKAGE}
+
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	mkdir -p "${S}"
+	tar --strip-components=1 -C "${S}" -xf "${DISTDIR}/${A}"
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	local options=( $(usex seccomp "seccomp" '') )
+	export GOPATH="${WORKDIR}/${P}" # ${PWD}/vendor
+	LDFLAGS=$(usex hardened '-extldflags -fno-PIC' '') emake GIT_COMMIT="$EGIT_COMMIT" BUILDTAGS="${options[@]}"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin bin/containerd* bin/ctr
+	systemd_dounit "${FILESDIR}/containerd.service"
+}