diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index ee3e5143a43..f4150849467 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ allprojects {
   apply plugin: 'groovy'
 
   ext {
-    spinnakerDependenciesVersion = project.hasProperty('spinnakerDependenciesVersion') ? project.property('spinnakerDependenciesVersion') : '0.111.0'
+    spinnakerDependenciesVersion = project.hasProperty('spinnakerDependenciesVersion') ? project.property('spinnakerDependenciesVersion') : '0.111.1'
   }
 
   def checkLocalVersions = [spinnakerDependenciesVersion: spinnakerDependenciesVersion]
diff --git a/clouddriver-appengine/clouddriver-appengine.gradle b/clouddriver-appengine/clouddriver-appengine.gradle
index 00ea9d5ef92..7fbfac3b775 100644
--- a/clouddriver-appengine/clouddriver-appengine.gradle
+++ b/clouddriver-appengine/clouddriver-appengine.gradle
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ dependencies {
   compile spinnaker.dependency("frigga")
   compile spinnaker.dependency("bootActuator")
   compile spinnaker.dependency("bootWeb")
+  compile spinnaker.dependency("korkArtifacts")
 
   // TODO(dpeach): move to spinnaker/spinnaker-dependencies.
   compile "com.google.apis:google-api-services-appengine:v1-rev4-1.22.0"
diff --git a/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/deploy/ops/DeployAppengineAtomicOperation.groovy b/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/deploy/ops/DeployAppengineAtomicOperation.groovy
index e317a982866..0a56f69d9bf 100644
--- a/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/deploy/ops/DeployAppengineAtomicOperation.groovy
+++ b/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/deploy/ops/DeployAppengineAtomicOperation.groovy
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
 package com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.deploy.ops
 
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.AppengineJobExecutor
-import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.gcsClient.AppengineGcsRepositoryClient
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.deploy.AppengineMutexRepository
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.deploy.AppengineServerGroupNameResolver
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.deploy.description.DeployAppengineDescription
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.deploy.exception.AppengineOperationException
-import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.storage.config.StorageConfigurationProperties
+import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.gcsClient.AppengineGcsRepositoryClient
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.storage.GcsStorageService
+import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.storage.config.StorageConfigurationProperties
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.data.task.Task
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.data.task.TaskRepository
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.deploy.DeploymentResult
diff --git a/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/deploy/validators/DeployAppengineDescriptionValidator.groovy b/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/deploy/validators/DeployAppengineDescriptionValidator.groovy
index bafe89e95a2..bb1491f7c01 100644
--- a/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/deploy/validators/DeployAppengineDescriptionValidator.groovy
+++ b/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/deploy/validators/DeployAppengineDescriptionValidator.groovy
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ class DeployAppengineDescriptionValidator extends DescriptionValidator<DeployApp
     helper.validateStack(description.stack, "stack")
     helper.validateDetails(description.freeFormDetails, "freeFormDetails")
     helper.validateNotEmpty(description.repositoryUrl, "repositoryUrl")
+
     if (!(description.configFilepaths || description.configFiles)) {
       helper.validateNotEmpty(description.configFilepaths, "configFilepaths")
       helper.validateNotEmpty(description.configFiles, "configFiles")
diff --git a/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/gcsClient/AppengineGcsRepositoryClient.groovy b/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/gcsClient/AppengineGcsRepositoryClient.groovy
index 4ed1d6fd1be..ba6387e8e66 100644
--- a/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/gcsClient/AppengineGcsRepositoryClient.groovy
+++ b/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/gcsClient/AppengineGcsRepositoryClient.groovy
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.AppengineJobExecutor
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.model.AppengineRepositoryClient
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.storage.GcsStorageService
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.storage.StorageUtils
-
 import groovy.transform.TupleConstructor
+import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar.TarArchiveInputStream
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils
 
 @TupleConstructor
 class AppengineGcsRepositoryClient implements AppengineRepositoryClient {
@@ -46,13 +47,29 @@ class AppengineGcsRepositoryClient implements AppengineRepositoryClient {
     }
 
     def dest = targetDirectory + File.separator + applicationDirectoryRoot
-    def fullPath = repositoryUrl.substring(gsPrefix.length()) + '/' + applicationDirectoryRoot
-    def slash = fullPath.indexOf("/");
-    def bucketName = fullPath.substring(0, slash);
-    def bucketPath = fullPath.substring(slash + 1);
+
+    def fullPath = repositoryUrl.substring(gsPrefix.length())
+    if (applicationDirectoryRoot) {
+      fullPath + '/' + applicationDirectoryRoot
+    }
+    def slash = fullPath.indexOf("/")
+    def bucketName = fullPath.substring(0, slash)
+    def bucketPath = fullPath.substring(slash + 1)
 
     if (fullPath.endsWith(".tar")) {
-      StorageUtils.untarStreamToPath(storage.openObjectStream(bucketName, bucketPath), dest)
+      InputStream tas = storage.openObjectStream(bucketName, bucketPath)
+
+      // NOTE: We write the tar file out to an intermediate temp file because the tar input stream
+      // directly from openObjectStream() closes unexpectedly when accessed from untarStreamToPath()
+      // for some reason.
+      File tempFile = File.createTempFile("app", "tar")
+      FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(tempFile)
+      IOUtils.copy(tas, fos)
+      tas.close()
+      fos.close()
+
+      StorageUtils.untarStreamToPath(new FileInputStream(tempFile), dest)
+      tempFile.delete()
     } else {
       storage.visitObjects(bucketName, bucketPath, { obj -> storage.downloadStorageObject(obj, dest) })
     }
diff --git a/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/storage/StorageConfiguration.java b/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/storage/StorageConfiguration.java
index dd94f7f8aa2..7525937f295 100644
--- a/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/storage/StorageConfiguration.java
+++ b/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/storage/StorageConfiguration.java
@@ -17,32 +17,25 @@
 package com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.storage;
 
 import com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.storage.config.StorageConfigurationProperties;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnProperty;
-import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
 import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.EnableConfigurationProperties;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Import;
 import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.EnableScheduling;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
 
 
 @Configuration
-@EnableConfigurationProperties
-@EnableScheduling
 @ConditionalOnProperty("storage.gcs.enabled")
+@EnableConfigurationProperties(StorageConfigurationProperties.class)
+@EnableScheduling
 class StorageConfiguration {
   @Autowired
   StorageConfigurationProperties storageAccountInfo;
 
-  @Bean
-  @ConfigurationProperties("storage.gcs")
-  StorageConfigurationProperties storageConfigurationProperties() {
-    return new StorageConfigurationProperties();
-  }
-
   @Bean
   GcsStorageService.Factory storageServiceFactory(String clouddriverUserAgentApplicationName) {
     try {
diff --git a/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/storage/config/StorageConfigurationProperties.java b/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/storage/config/StorageConfigurationProperties.java
index 126df0d2132..8e7ea4df413 100644
--- a/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/storage/config/StorageConfigurationProperties.java
+++ b/clouddriver-appengine/src/main/java/com/netflix/spinnaker/clouddriver/appengine/storage/config/StorageConfigurationProperties.java
@@ -17,15 +17,17 @@
 package com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.appengine.storage.config;
 
 import groovy.transform.ToString;
+import lombok.Data;
+import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
 import retrofit.client.Response;
 import retrofit.mime.TypedByteArray;
+
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
 
-import lombok.Data;
-
 @Data
+@ConfigurationProperties("storage.gcs")
 public class StorageConfigurationProperties {
   @Data
   @ToString(includeNames = true)