diff --git a/cluster/gce/coreos/configure-node.sh b/cluster/gce/coreos/configure-node.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index d8cbf1c9e0e..d462e50ba14
--- a/cluster/gce/coreos/configure-node.sh
+++ b/cluster/gce/coreos/configure-node.sh
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ function configure-master-components() {
   configure-kube-apiserver
   configure-kube-scheduler
   configure-kube-controller-manager
-  configure-addon-manager
   configure-master-addons
+  configure-addon-manager
 }
 
 # TODO(yifan): Merge this with mount-master-pd() in configure-vm.sh
@@ -301,9 +301,10 @@ function load-docker-images() {
 }
 
 
-# TODO(yifan): Making this function more generic for other runtimes.
 function load-master-components-images() {
   echo "Loading docker images for master components"
+  export RKT_BIN=/opt/rkt/rkt
+  export DOCKER2ACI_BIN=/opt/docker2aci/docker2aci
   ${SALT_DIR}/install.sh ${KUBE_BIN_TAR}
   ${SALT_DIR}/salt/kube-master-addons/kube-master-addons.sh
 
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-master-addons/kube-master-addons.sh b/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-master-addons/kube-master-addons.sh
index 4041e8f21f7..a91ecb77dbd 100755
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-master-addons/kube-master-addons.sh
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/kube-master-addons/kube-master-addons.sh
@@ -15,52 +15,76 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 # loadedImageFlags is a bit-flag to track which docker images loaded successfully.
-let loadedImageFlags=0
 
-while true; do
-  restart_docker=false
-
-  if which docker 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
-
-    timeout 30 docker load -i /srv/salt/kube-bins/kube-apiserver.tar 1>/dev/null 2>&1
-    rc=$?
-    if [[ $rc == 0 ]]; then
-      let loadedImageFlags="$loadedImageFlags|1"
-    elif [[ $rc == 124 ]]; then
-      restart_docker=true
+function load-docker-images() {
+  let loadedImageFlags=0
+  
+  while true; do
+    restart_docker=false
+  
+    if which docker 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  
+      timeout 30 docker load -i /srv/salt/kube-bins/kube-apiserver.tar 1>/dev/null 2>&1
+      rc=$?
+      if [[ $rc == 0 ]]; then
+        let loadedImageFlags="$loadedImageFlags|1"
+      elif [[ $rc == 124 ]]; then
+        restart_docker=true
+      fi
+  
+      timeout 30 docker load -i /srv/salt/kube-bins/kube-scheduler.tar 1>/dev/null 2>&1
+      rc=$?
+      if [[ $rc == 0 ]]; then
+        let loadedImageFlags="$loadedImageFlags|2"
+      elif [[ $rc == 124 ]]; then
+        restart_docker=true
+      fi
+  
+      timeout 30 docker load -i /srv/salt/kube-bins/kube-controller-manager.tar 1>/dev/null 2>&1
+      rc=$?
+      if [[ $rc == 0 ]]; then
+        let loadedImageFlags="$loadedImageFlags|4"
+      elif [[ $rc == 124 ]]; then
+        restart_docker=true
+      fi
     fi
-
-    timeout 30 docker load -i /srv/salt/kube-bins/kube-scheduler.tar 1>/dev/null 2>&1
-    rc=$?
-    if [[ $rc == 0 ]]; then
-      let loadedImageFlags="$loadedImageFlags|2"
-    elif [[ $rc == 124 ]]; then
-      restart_docker=true
+  
+    # required docker images got installed. exit while loop.
+    if [[ $loadedImageFlags == 7 ]]; then break; fi
+  
+    # Sometimes docker load hang, restart docker daemon resolve the issue
+    if [[ $restart_docker ]]; then
+      if ! service docker restart; then # Try systemctl if there's no service command.
+        systemctl restart docker      
+      fi
     fi
+  
+    # sleep for 15 seconds before attempting to load docker images again
+    sleep 15
+  
+  done
+}
 
-    timeout 30 docker load -i /srv/salt/kube-bins/kube-controller-manager.tar 1>/dev/null 2>&1
-    rc=$?
-    if [[ $rc == 0 ]]; then
-      let loadedImageFlags="$loadedImageFlags|4"
-    elif [[ $rc == 124 ]]; then
-      restart_docker=true
-    fi
-  fi
+function convert-rkt-image() {
+  (cd /tmp; ${DOCKER2ACI_BIN} $1)
+}
 
-  # required docker images got installed. exit while loop.
-  if [[ $loadedImageFlags == 7 ]]; then break; fi
+function load-rkt-images() {
+  convert-rkt-image /srv/salt/kube-bins/kube-apiserver.tar
+  convert-rkt-image /srv/salt/kube-bins/kube-scheduler.tar
+  convert-rkt-image /srv/salt/kube-bins/kube-controller-manager.tar
 
-  # Sometimes docker load hang, restart docker daemon resolve the issue
-  if [[ $restart_docker ]]; then
-    if ! service docker restart; then # Try systemctl if there's no service command.
-      systemctl restart docker      
-    fi
-  fi
+  # Currently, we can't run docker image tarballs directly,
+  # So we use 'rkt fetch' to load the docker images into rkt image stores.
+  # see https://github.com/coreos/rkt/issues/2392.
+  ${RKT_BIN} fetch /tmp/*.aci --insecure-options=image
+}
 
-  # sleep for 15 seconds before attempting to load docker images again
-  sleep 15
-
-done
+if [[ "${KUBERNETES_CONTAINER_RUNTIME}" == "rkt" ]]; then
+  load-rkt-images
+else
+  load-docker-images
+fi
 
 # Now exit. After kube-push, salt will notice that the service is down and it
 # will start it and new docker images will be loaded.