diff --git a/hypha/src/container/init.rs b/hypha/src/container/init.rs
index ee1307b..d24add5 100644
--- a/hypha/src/container/init.rs
+++ b/hypha/src/container/init.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ const CONFIG_BLOCK_DEVICE_PATH: &str = "/dev/xvdb";
 
 const IMAGE_MOUNT_PATH: &str = "/image";
 const CONFIG_MOUNT_PATH: &str = "/config";
+const OVERLAY_MOUNT_PATH: &str = "/overlay";
+
+const OVERLAY_IMAGE_BIND_PATH: &str = "/overlay/image";
+const OVERLAY_WORK_PATH: &str = "/overlay/work";
+const OVERLAY_UPPER_PATH: &str = "/overlay/upper";
+
+const PIVOT_PATH: &str = "/pivot";
 
 const IMAGE_CONFIG_JSON_PATH: &str = "/config/image/config.json";
 
@@ -26,8 +33,10 @@ impl ContainerInit {
     }
 
     pub fn init(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
-        self.prepare_mounts()?;
+        self.mount_early()?;
         let config = self.parse_image_config()?;
+        self.mount_late()?;
+
         if let Some(cfg) = config.config() {
             if let Some(cmd) = cfg.cmd() {
                 println!("image command: {:?}", cmd);
@@ -36,7 +45,7 @@ impl ContainerInit {
         Ok(())
     }
 
-    fn prepare_mounts(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
+    fn mount_early(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
         let image_mount_path = Path::new(IMAGE_MOUNT_PATH);
         let config_mount_path = Path::new(CONFIG_MOUNT_PATH);
         self.mount_squashfs(Path::new(IMAGE_BLOCK_DEVICE_PATH), image_mount_path)?;
@@ -44,12 +53,6 @@ impl ContainerInit {
         Ok(())
     }
 
-    fn parse_image_config(&mut self) -> Result<ImageConfiguration> {
-        let image_config_path = Path::new(IMAGE_CONFIG_JSON_PATH);
-        let config = ImageConfiguration::from_file(image_config_path)?;
-        Ok(config)
-    }
-
     fn mount_squashfs(&mut self, from: &Path, to: &Path) -> Result<()> {
         if !to.is_dir() {
             fs::create_dir(to)?;
@@ -60,4 +63,49 @@ impl ContainerInit {
             .mount(from, to)?;
         Ok(())
     }
+
+    fn mount_late(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
+        self.mount_overlay_tmpfs()?;
+        self.bind_image_to_overlay_tmpfs()?;
+        self.mount_overlay_to_pivot()?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn mount_overlay_tmpfs(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
+        fs::create_dir(OVERLAY_MOUNT_PATH)?;
+        Mount::builder()
+            .fstype(FilesystemType::Manual("tmpfs"))
+            .mount("tmpfs", OVERLAY_MOUNT_PATH)?;
+        fs::create_dir(OVERLAY_UPPER_PATH)?;
+        fs::create_dir(OVERLAY_WORK_PATH)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn bind_image_to_overlay_tmpfs(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
+        fs::create_dir(OVERLAY_IMAGE_BIND_PATH)?;
+        Mount::builder()
+            .fstype(FilesystemType::Manual("none"))
+            .flags(MountFlags::BIND | MountFlags::RDONLY)
+            .mount(IMAGE_MOUNT_PATH, OVERLAY_IMAGE_BIND_PATH)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn mount_overlay_to_pivot(&mut self) -> Result<()> {
+        fs::create_dir(PIVOT_PATH)?;
+        Mount::builder()
+            .fstype(FilesystemType::Manual("overlay"))
+            .flags(MountFlags::NOATIME)
+            .data(&format!(
+                "lowerdir={},upperdir={},workdir={}",
+                OVERLAY_IMAGE_BIND_PATH, OVERLAY_UPPER_PATH, OVERLAY_WORK_PATH
+            ))
+            .mount(format!("overlayfs:{}", OVERLAY_MOUNT_PATH), PIVOT_PATH)?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn parse_image_config(&mut self) -> Result<ImageConfiguration> {
+        let image_config_path = Path::new(IMAGE_CONFIG_JSON_PATH);
+        let config = ImageConfiguration::from_file(image_config_path)?;
+        Ok(config)
+    }
 }