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 299364d0fd..3cad773a9d 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 @@
-DIST containerd-0.2.6.tar.gz 1020572 BLAKE2B b235acc5badd3c3d87f72910c11e6adfd73e2cb7aa5273ab0ed9e6642aff8980d9b2a74875b4a69db36eaf67350124ef8629b0f460bdbe2d16d1ab834ba1e2cc SHA512 41018bda556a3ddfb1bd3a16e642548ba06f413b13fd1488e731896e277ba6c84a393ebd5de067ecaeccc695297a2b74edf22e5a3fe8f2e3eadf78d080bdeff6
-DIST containerd-1.5.5.tar.gz 7711631 BLAKE2B 3777db6e7348500b27e8cff799d977d556d1956c097831c3a532791c629997c1f72b2f55db142b5659a253750422ede23a4179633b54226be1b95d96ac26367b SHA512 8ee5aa1d35e76238fd8707bff6b7eedb7931e6489d49b6907a8e190b076fe6fd95ae5e85ecea1605adb7fcd4f3ae0e926696f1d2f3c0d12b61e6df906929b9eb
+DIST containerd-1.5.5.tar.gz 7711631 BLAKE2B 3777db6e7348500b27e8cff799d977d556d1956c097831c3a532791c629997c1f72b2f55db142b5659a253750422ede23a4179633b54226be1b95d96ac26367b SHA512 8ee5aa1d35e76238fd8707bff6b7eedb7931e6489d49b6907a8e190b076fe6fd95ae5e85ecea1605adb7fcd4f3ae0e926696f1d2f3c0d12b61e6df906929b9eb
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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
deleted file mode 100644
index a7d7e64cdf..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/containerd/containerd-0.2.6.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-# 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"
-}