This works around a flake I saw which had the same root cause as https://github.com/coreos/rkt/issues/3513. This will potentially help reduce the impact of such future problems as well.
Container Linux image
The Container Linux Operating System is a Linux distribution optimized for running containers securely at scale. CoreOS provides a Container Linux image for Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
This folder contains configuration and tooling to allow kube-up to create a Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud Platform running on the official Container Linux image.