diff --git a/layers/meta-belden-coreos/classes/coreos-image.bbclass b/layers/meta-belden-coreos/classes/coreos-image.bbclass
index 589bbae..19cb83a 100644
--- a/layers/meta-belden-coreos/classes/coreos-image.bbclass
+++ b/layers/meta-belden-coreos/classes/coreos-image.bbclass
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ FEATURE_PACKAGES_networkmanager = "networkmanager networkmanager-nmcli"
 FEATURE_PACKAGES_networkmanager-dev-tools = "networkmanager-nmtui"
 FEATURE_PACKAGES_networkmanager-cockpit = "cockpit-networkmanager"
 
-FEATURE_PACKAGES_swupdate = "swupdate swupdate-client swupdate-lua"
+FEATURE_PACKAGES_swupdate = "packagegroup-coreos-swupdate"
 
 # The cockpit feature automatically install the corresponding
 # *-cockpit FEATURES_PACKAGES for any image features
diff --git a/layers/meta-belden-coreos/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-coreos-swupdate.bb b/layers/meta-belden-coreos/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-coreos-swupdate.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8429c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layers/meta-belden-coreos/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-coreos-swupdate.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+SUMMARY = "Add CoreOS swupdate backends and integrations packages"
+DESCRIPTION = "Install swupdate and related components"
+
+inherit packagegroup
+
+
+PACKAGES = "\
+    ${PN} \
+"
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
+    swupdate \
+    swupdate-progress \
+    swupdate-client \
+    swupdate-lua \
+"