diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1-r176.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1-r177.ebuild
similarity index 100%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1-r176.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1-r177.ebuild
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
index df32d36d6c..0a4568365f 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/hard-host-depends/hard-host-depends-0.0.1.ebuild
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	>=dev-vcs/git-1.7.2
 	dev-vcs/mercurial
 	dev-vcs/subversion[-dso]
+	net-misc/gcutil
 	net-misc/gsutil
 	sys-apps/usbutils
 	sys-apps/systemd
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/net-misc/gcutil/Manifest b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/net-misc/gcutil/Manifest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0fd14218b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/net-misc/gcutil/Manifest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST gcutil-1.16.5.tar.gz 475617 SHA256 f22e9281cce7a941e4fc622ab77b3bf5efde1fd8ffd5ab713f13ac976f940d15 SHA512 f85c7c74a5945ab0716d74a51832f88363ca7aa607cad112e510521474bc17e2f20d4186067fa96ac6d384434d9a047201c63eb64b6c343e7344f6f7411fa7b9 WHIRLPOOL 8ee96f4532e8e4c604a3575e281ce99c00cc69c8eb7062d8e8442a427ef09ff5cacd7c91f77dda29c205840eb1dfd10c9489d9d65a7a354504b0987ac4371789
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/net-misc/gcutil/files/gcutil-1.11.0-use-friendly-version-checks.patch b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/net-misc/gcutil/files/gcutil-1.11.0-use-friendly-version-checks.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b7b115b81e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/net-misc/gcutil/files/gcutil-1.11.0-use-friendly-version-checks.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+From 6fe56f08bfb93c1a93fb275a292ce8043ab05494 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>
+Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:12:43 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH] Use friendly version checks
+
+---
+ setup.py | 14 +++++++-------
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index b88cb50..b9b3c09 100755
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -23,18 +23,18 @@ except ImportError:
+ ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+ 
+ REQUIREMENTS = [
+-    'google-api-python-client==1.2',
+-    'google-apputils==0.4.0',
+-    'httplib2==0.8',
+-    'ipaddr==2.1.10',
+-    'iso8601==0.1.4',
+-    'python-gflags==2.0'
++    'google-api-python-client>=1.2',
++    'google-apputils>=0.4.0',
++    'httplib2>=0.8',
++    'ipaddr>=2.1.10',
++    'iso8601>=0.1.4',
++    'python-gflags>=2.0'
+ ]
+ 
+ try:
+   import argparse
+ except ImportError:
+-  REQUIREMENTS.append('argparse==1.2.1')
++  REQUIREMENTS.append('argparse>=1.2.1')
+ 
+ 
+ def GetVersion():
+-- 
+1.8.1.5
+
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/net-misc/gcutil/gcutil-1.16.5.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/net-misc/gcutil/gcutil-1.16.5.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2a7fb30540
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/net-misc/gcutil/gcutil-1.16.5.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: $
+
+EAPI="5"
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Command line tool for interacting with Google Compute Engine"
+HOMEPAGE="https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/gcutil/"
+SRC_URI="https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/release/artifacts/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="amd64"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	>=dev-python/httplib2-0.8[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/google-api-python-client-1.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/ipaddr-2.1.10[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/iso8601-0.1.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/google-apputils-0.4.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/python-gflags-2.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	=dev-python/oauth2client-1.4*[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/setuptools[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	"
+
+DOCS=( README CHANGELOG )
+PATCHES=(
+	${FILESDIR}/${PN}-1.11.0-use-friendly-version-checks.patch
+)
+
+python_test() {
+	${PYTHON} setup.py google_test --test-dir "${BUILD_DIR}"/lib || \
+		ewarn "FIXME: Tests failed with ${EPYTHON}"
+	# There seems to be a version compatibility issue...
+}