Some google-managed base images would be helpful. The last time I checked, some of the major public docker images were still shellshock-vulnerable. Pre-installed GCE tools would be helpful. Perhaps automated environment variables about region, etc.
If you have found an official Docker image that is still shellshock vulnerable, the library maintainers [1] would love to hear from you as they take that stuff quite seriously. As far as I know the entire library is fully patched.
As one of the maintainers in question, I'd absolutely mirror this whole statement: if any of the image upstreams have an important update available that isn't applied, we're very interested in rectifying that.