diff --git a/cluster/gce/templates/create-dynamic-salt-files.sh b/cluster/gce/templates/create-dynamic-salt-files.sh
index 713e1291b6d..0183e286007 100644
--- a/cluster/gce/templates/create-dynamic-salt-files.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/templates/create-dynamic-salt-files.sh
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ cat <<EOF >/srv/salt-overlay/pillar/cluster-params.sls
 node_instance_prefix: $NODE_INSTANCE_PREFIX
 portal_net: $PORTAL_NET
 use-fluentd-es: $FLUENTD_ELASTICSEARCH
+use-fluentd-gcp: $FLUENTD_GCP
 EOF
 
 mkdir -p /srv/salt-overlay/salt/nginx
diff --git a/cluster/gce/util.sh b/cluster/gce/util.sh
index 201519ae823..706518f0009 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/util.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/util.sh
@@ -265,11 +265,17 @@ function kube-up {
     echo "readonly MASTER_HTPASSWD='${htpasswd}'"
     echo "readonly PORTAL_NET='${PORTAL_NET}'"
     echo "readonly FLUENTD_ELASTICSEARCH='${FLUENTD_ELASTICSEARCH:-false}'"
+    echo "readonly FLUENTD_GCP='${FLUENTD_GCP:-false}'"
     grep -v "^#" "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/gce/templates/create-dynamic-salt-files.sh"
     grep -v "^#" "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/gce/templates/download-release.sh"
     grep -v "^#" "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/gce/templates/salt-master.sh"
   ) > "${KUBE_TEMP}/master-start.sh"
 
+  # For logging to GCP we need to enable some minion scopes.
+  if [ $FLUENTD_GCP == "true" ]; then
+     MINION_SCOPES="${MINION_SCOPES}, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write"
+  fi
+
   gcutil addinstance "${MASTER_NAME}" \
     --project "${PROJECT}" \
     --norespect_terminal_width \
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.manifest b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.manifest
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..07ab3a779e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.manifest
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+version: v1beta2
+id: fluentd-to-gcp
+containers:
+  - name: fluentd-gcp-container
+    image: kubernetes/fluentd-gcp
+    volumeMounts:
+      - name: containers
+        mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
+        readOnly: true
+volumes:
+  - name: containers
+    source:
+      hostDir:
+        path: /var/lib/docker/containers
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/init.sls b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/init.sls
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9953bbd7fc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/fluentd-gcp/init.sls
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/etc/kubernetes/manifests/fluentd-gcp.manifest:
+  file.managed:
+    - source: salt://fluentd-gcp/fluentd-gcp.manifest
+    - user: root
+    - group: root
+    - mode: 644
+    - makedirs: true
+    - dir_mode: 755
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/top.sls b/cluster/saltbase/salt/top.sls
index 75ec944943a..bd7e21c6aa2 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/top.sls
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/top.sls
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ base:
     - cadvisor
 {% if pillar['use-fluentd-es'] is defined and pillar['use-fluentd-es'] %}
     - fluentd-es
+{% endif %}
+{% if pillar['use-fluentd-gcp'] is defined and pillar['use-fluentd-gcp'] %}
+    - fluentd-gcp
 {% endif %}
     # We need a binary release of nsinit
     # - nsinit
diff --git a/docs/getting-started-guides/logging.md b/docs/getting-started-guides/logging.md
index c1eab6b0348..fe4bf7fcf97 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started-guides/logging.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started-guides/logging.md
@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@ be targetted at an [Elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/) instance assum
 local node and accepting log information on port 9200. This can be accomplished
 by writing a pod specification and service sepecificaiton to define an
 Elasticsearch service (more informaiton to follow shortly in the contrib directory).
+
+### Logging with Fluentd and Google Compute Platform
+
+To enable logging of Docker contains in a cluster using Google Compute
+Platfrom set the shell environment variable ``FLUENTD_GCP`` to ``true``.
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