diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.accept_keywords
index 701c9625da..48186d813c 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/targets/sdk/package.accept_keywords
@@ -2,3 +2,7 @@
 dev-python/awscli ~amd64
 dev-python/s3transfer ~amd64
 dev-python/botocore ~amd64
+
+# Accept unstable host Rust compilers
+dev-lang/rust ~amd64
+dev-util/cargo ~amd64