diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/configure.sh b/cluster/gce/gci/configure.sh
index f8fa6e9f389..0d343835977 100644
--- a/cluster/gce/gci/configure.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/gci/configure.sh
@@ -98,13 +98,20 @@ function split-commas {
   echo $1 | tr "," "\n"
 }
 
-function install-rkt {
-    local -r rkt_binary="rkt-v1.18.0"
-    local -r rkt_sha1="75fc8f29c79bc9e505f3e7f6e8fadf2425c21967"
-    download-or-bust "${rkt_sha1}" "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/rkt/${rkt_binary}"
-    local -r rkt_dst="${KUBE_HOME}/bin/rkt"
-    mv "${KUBE_HOME}/${rkt_binary}" "${rkt_dst}"
-    chmod a+x "${rkt_dst}"
+function install-gci-mounter-tools {
+    local -r rkt_version="v1.18.0"
+    local -r gci_mounter_version="v2"
+    local -r rkt_binary_sha1="75fc8f29c79bc9e505f3e7f6e8fadf2425c21967"
+    local -r rkt_stage1_fly_sha1="474df5a1f934960ba669b360ab713d0a54283091"
+    local -r gci_mounter_sha1="4e524f5c0fa4668a1d26cf7a1d00e16bfe9544c3"
+    download-or-bust "${rkt_binary_sha1}" "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/rkt/${rkt_version}/rkt"
+    download-or-bust "${rkt_stage1_fly_sha1}" "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/rkt/${rkt_version}/stage1-fly.aci"
+    download-or-bust "${gci_mounter_sha1}" "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/gci-mounter/gci-mounter-${gci_mounter_version}.aci"
+    local -r rkt_dst="${KUBE_HOME}/bin/"
+    mv "${KUBE_HOME}/rkt" "${rkt_dst}/rkt"
+    mv "${KUBE_HOME}/stage1-fly.aci" "${rkt_dst}/stage1-fly.aci"
+    mv "${KUBE_HOME}/gci-mounter-${gci_mounter_version}.aci" "${rkt_dst}/gci-mounter-${gci_mounter_version}.aci"
+    chmod a+x "${rkt_dst}/rkt"
 }
 
 # Downloads kubernetes binaries and kube-system manifest tarball, unpacks them,
@@ -184,8 +191,8 @@ function install-kube-binary-config {
   cp "${dst_dir}/kubernetes/gci-trusty/health-monitor.sh" "${KUBE_HOME}/bin/health-monitor.sh"
   chmod -R 755 "${kube_bin}"
 
-  # Install rkt binary to allow mounting storage volumes in GCI
-  install-rkt
+  # Install gci mounter related artifacts to allow mounting storage volumes in GCI
+  install-gci-mounter-tools
   
   # Clean up.
   rm -rf "${KUBE_HOME}/kubernetes"
diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/Makefile b/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/Makefile
index 2cc4eaa43c1..72efa3b77c4 100644
--- a/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/Makefile
+++ b/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/Makefile
@@ -24,4 +24,7 @@ container:
 push: 
 	gcloud docker -- push ${REGISTRY}/${IMAGE}:${TAG}
 
+upload:
+	./stage-upload.sh ${TAG} ${REGISTRY}/${IMAGE}:${TAG}
+
 .PHONY: all container push
diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/mounter b/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/mounter
index 0cdf788c856..3d826fad603 100755
--- a/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/mounter
+++ b/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/mounter
@@ -14,13 +14,16 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-set -e
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
-MOUNTER_DOCKER_IMAGE=gcr.io/google_containers/gci-mounter
-MOUNTER_DOCKER_VERSION=v2
+MOUNTER_VERSION=v2
 MOUNTER_USER=root
-RKT_BINARY=/home/kubernetes/bin/rkt
+ROOT_DIR=/home/kubernetes/bin
+RKT_BINARY=${ROOT_DIR}/rkt
+STAGE1_ACI=${ROOT_DIR}/stage1-fly.aci
+MOUNTER_ACI=${ROOT_DIR}/gci-mounter-${MOUNTER_VERSION}.aci
 
 function gc {
     # Attempt to garbage collect rkt pods with 5 retries.
@@ -36,8 +39,12 @@ function gc {
 # Garbage collect old rkt containers on exit
 trap gc EXIT
 
-${RKT_BINARY} run --stage1-name="coreos.com/rkt/stage1-fly:1.18.0" \
-	      --insecure-options=image \
-	      --volume=kubelet,kind=host,source=/var/lib/kubelet,readOnly=false,recursive=true \
-	      --mount volume=kubelet,target=/var/lib/kubelet \
-	      docker://${MOUNTER_DOCKER_IMAGE}:${MOUNTER_DOCKER_VERSION} --user=${MOUNTER_USER} --exec /bin/mount -- "$@"
+echo "Running mount using a rkt fly container"
+
+${RKT_BINARY} run --stage1-path=${STAGE1_ACI} \
+	--insecure-options=image \
+	--volume=kubelet,kind=host,source=/var/lib/kubelet,readOnly=false,recursive=true \
+	--mount volume=kubelet,target=/var/lib/kubelet \
+	file://${MOUNTER_ACI} --user=${MOUNTER_USER} --exec /bin/mount -- "$@"
+
+echo "Successfully ran mount using a rkt fly container"
diff --git a/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/stage-upload.sh b/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/stage-upload.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..4fbc706af14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cluster/gce/gci/mounter/stage-upload.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o pipefail
+set -o nounset
+
+RKT_VERSION="v1.18.0"
+DOCKER2ACI_VERSION="v0.13.0"
+MOUNTER_VERSION=$1
+DOCKER_IMAGE=docker://$2
+MOUNTER_ACI_IMAGE=gci-mounter-${MOUNTER_VERSION}.aci
+RKT_GCS_DIR=gs://kubernetes-release/rkt/
+MOUNTER_GCS_DIR=gs://kubernetes-release/gci-mounter/
+
+TMPDIR=/tmp
+# Setup a working directory
+DOWNLOAD_DIR=$(mktemp --tmpdir=${TMPDIR} -d gci-mounter-build.XXXXXXXXXX)
+
+# Setup a staging directory
+STAGING_DIR=$(mktemp --tmpdir=${TMPDIR} -d gci-mounter-staging.XXXXXXXXXX)
+RKT_DIR=${STAGING_DIR}/${RKT_VERSION}
+ACI_DIR=${STAGING_DIR}/gci-mounter
+CWD=${PWD}
+
+# Cleanup the temporary directories
+function cleanup {
+    rm -rf ${DOWNLOAD_DIR}
+    rm -rf ${STAGING_DIR}
+    cd ${CWD}
+}
+
+# Delete temporary directories on exit
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+mkdir ${RKT_DIR}
+mkdir ${ACI_DIR}
+
+# Download rkt
+cd ${DOWNLOAD_DIR}
+echo "Downloading rkt ${RKT_VERSION}"
+wget "https://github.com/coreos/rkt/releases/download/${RKT_VERSION}/rkt-${RKT_VERSION}.tar.gz" &> /dev/null
+echo "Extracting rkt ${RKT_VERSION}"
+tar xzf rkt-${RKT_VERSION}.tar.gz
+
+# Stage rkt into working directory
+cp rkt-${RKT_VERSION}/rkt ${RKT_DIR}/rkt
+cp rkt-${RKT_VERSION}/stage1-fly.aci ${RKT_DIR}/
+
+# Convert docker image to aci and stage it
+echo "Downloading docker2aci ${DOCKER2ACI_VERSION}"
+wget "https://github.com/appc/docker2aci/releases/download/${DOCKER2ACI_VERSION}/docker2aci-${DOCKER2ACI_VERSION}.tar.gz" &> /dev/null
+echo "Extracting docker2aci ${DOCKER2ACI_VERSION}"
+tar xzf docker2aci-${DOCKER2ACI_VERSION}.tar.gz
+ACI_IMAGE=$(${DOWNLOAD_DIR}/docker2aci-${DOCKER2ACI_VERSION}/docker2aci ${DOCKER_IMAGE} 2>/dev/null | tail -n 1)
+cp ${ACI_IMAGE} ${ACI_DIR}/${MOUNTER_ACI_IMAGE}
+
+# Upload the contents to gcs
+echo "Uploading rkt artifacts in ${RKT_DIR} to ${RKT_GCS_DIR}"
+gsutil cp -R ${RKT_DIR} ${RKT_GCS_DIR}
+echo "Uploading gci mounter ACI in ${ACI_DIR} to ${MOUNTER_GCS_DIR}"
+gsutil cp ${ACI_DIR}/${MOUNTER_ACI_IMAGE} ${MOUNTER_GCS_DIR}
+
+echo "Upload completed"
+echo "Update rkt, stag1-fly.aci & gci-mounter ACI versions and SHA1 in cluster/gce/gci/configure.sh"
+echo "${RKT_VERSION}/rkt sha1: $(sha1sum ${RKT_DIR}/rkt)"
+echo "${RKT_VERSION}/stage1-fly.aci sha1: $(sha1sum ${RKT_DIR}/stage1-fly.aci)"
+echo "${MOUNTER_ACI_IMAGE} hash: $(sha1sum ${ACI_DIR}/${MOUNTER_ACI_IMAGE})"
diff --git a/pkg/apis/componentconfig/BUILD b/pkg/apis/componentconfig/BUILD
index bd1ce3906b8..d76601bc3ef 100644
--- a/pkg/apis/componentconfig/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/apis/componentconfig/BUILD
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ go_library(
         "doc.go",
         "helpers.go",
         "register.go",
+        "types.generated.go",
         "types.go",
         "zz_generated.deepcopy.go",
     ],
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ go_library(
         "//pkg/runtime:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/util/config:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/util/net:go_default_library",
+        "//vendor:github.com/ugorji/go/codec",
     ],
 )