diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/rkt/fake_rkt_interface.go b/pkg/kubelet/rkt/fake_rkt_interface.go
index c7a0a87df04..f6d7b7a2384 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/rkt/fake_rkt_interface.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/rkt/fake_rkt_interface.go
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import (
 type fakeRktInterface struct {
 	sync.Mutex
 	info   rktapi.Info
+	images []*rktapi.Image
 	called []string
 	err    error
 }
@@ -62,7 +63,11 @@ func (f *fakeRktInterface) InspectPod(ctx context.Context, in *rktapi.InspectPod
 }
 
 func (f *fakeRktInterface) ListImages(ctx context.Context, in *rktapi.ListImagesRequest, opts ...grpc.CallOption) (*rktapi.ListImagesResponse, error) {
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf("Not implemented")
+	f.Lock()
+	defer f.Unlock()
+
+	f.called = append(f.called, "ListImages")
+	return &rktapi.ListImagesResponse{f.images}, f.err
 }
 
 func (f *fakeRktInterface) InspectImage(ctx context.Context, in *rktapi.InspectImageRequest, opts ...grpc.CallOption) (*rktapi.InspectImageResponse, error) {
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/rkt/rkt.go b/pkg/kubelet/rkt/rkt.go
index 5bfe3fa8e8b..0419d7bd50d 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/rkt/rkt.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/rkt/rkt.go
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/parsers"
 	docker "github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient"
 	"github.com/golang/glog"
+	"golang.org/x/net/context"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/client/record"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/credentialprovider"
@@ -1327,49 +1328,22 @@ func (r *Runtime) getImageByName(imageName string) (*kubecontainer.Image, error)
 
 // ListImages lists all the available appc images on the machine by invoking 'rkt image list'.
 func (r *Runtime) ListImages() ([]kubecontainer.Image, error) {
-	// Example output of 'rkt image list --fields=id,name --full':
-	//
-	// ID									        NAME
-	// sha512-374770396f23dd153937cd66694fe705cf375bcec7da00cf87e1d9f72c192da7	nginx:latest
-	// sha512-bead9e0df8b1b4904d0c57ade2230e6d236e8473f62614a8bc6dcf11fc924123	coreos.com/rkt/stage1:0.8.1
-	//
-	// With '--no-legend=true' the fist line (KEY NAME) will be omitted.
-	output, err := r.runCommand("image", "list", "--no-legend=true", "--fields=id,name", "--full")
+	listResp, err := r.apisvc.ListImages(context.Background(), &rktapi.ListImagesRequest{})
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	if len(output) == 0 {
-		return nil, nil
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("couldn't list images: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	var images []kubecontainer.Image
-	for _, line := range output {
-		img, err := parseImageInfo(line)
-		if err != nil {
-			glog.Warningf("rkt: Cannot parse image info from %q: %v", line, err)
-			continue
+	images := make([]kubecontainer.Image, len(listResp.Images))
+	for i, image := range listResp.Images {
+		images[i] = kubecontainer.Image{
+			ID:   image.Id,
+			Tags: []string{image.Name},
+			//TODO: fill in the size of the image
 		}
-		images = append(images, *img)
 	}
 	return images, nil
 }
 
-// parseImageInfo creates the kubecontainer.Image struct by parsing the string in the result of 'rkt image list',
-// the input looks like:
-//
-// sha512-91e98d7f1679a097c878203c9659f2a26ae394656b3147963324c61fa3832f15	coreos.com/etcd:v2.0.9
-//
-func parseImageInfo(input string) (*kubecontainer.Image, error) {
-	idName := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(input), "\t")
-	if len(idName) != 2 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid image information from 'rkt image list': %q", input)
-	}
-	return &kubecontainer.Image{
-		ID:   idName[0],
-		Tags: []string{idName[1]},
-	}, nil
-}
-
 // RemoveImage removes an on-disk image using 'rkt image rm'.
 func (r *Runtime) RemoveImage(image kubecontainer.ImageSpec) error {
 	img, err := r.getImageByName(image.Image)
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/rkt/rkt_test.go b/pkg/kubelet/rkt/rkt_test.go
index 471d795fd85..df47d1e50bd 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/rkt/rkt_test.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/rkt/rkt_test.go
@@ -144,3 +144,56 @@ func TestCheckVersion(t *testing.T) {
 		fs.CleanCalls()
 	}
 }
+
+func TestListImages(t *testing.T) {
+	fr := newFakeRktInterface()
+	fs := newFakeSystemd()
+	r := &Runtime{apisvc: fr, systemd: fs}
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		images []*rktapi.Image
+	}{
+		{},
+		{
+			[]*rktapi.Image{
+				{
+					Id:      "sha512-a2fb8f390702",
+					Name:    "quay.io/coreos/alpine-sh",
+					Version: "latest",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			[]*rktapi.Image{
+				{
+					Id:      "sha512-a2fb8f390702",
+					Name:    "quay.io/coreos/alpine-sh",
+					Version: "latest",
+				},
+				{
+					Id:      "sha512-c6b597f42816",
+					Name:    "coreos.com/rkt/stage1-coreos",
+					Version: "0.10.0",
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	for i, tt := range tests {
+		fr.images = tt.images
+
+		images, err := r.ListImages()
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("%v", err)
+		}
+		assert.Equal(t, len(images), len(tt.images), fmt.Sprintf("test case %d: mismatched number of images", i))
+		for i, image := range images {
+			assert.Equal(t, image.ID, tt.images[i].Id, fmt.Sprintf("test case %d: mismatched image IDs", i))
+			assert.Equal(t, []string{tt.images[i].Name}, image.Tags, fmt.Sprintf("test case %d: mismatched image tags", i))
+		}
+
+		assert.Equal(t, fr.called, []string{"ListImages"}, fmt.Sprintf("test case %d: unexpected called list", i))
+
+		fr.CleanCalls()
+	}
+}