Translations

All translations are stored in the top-level translations directory.

Adding a New Language

• Add a new json file in the translations directory with the locale code of the language you want to add translations for, e.g. fr for French.

~/minikube$ touch translations/fr.json
~/minikube$ ls translations/
de.json  es.json  fr.json  ja.json  ko.json  pl.json  zh-CN.json

• Run make extract from root directory to populate that file with the strings to translate in json form.

~/minikube$ make extract
go run cmd/extract/extract.go
Compiling translation strings...
Writing to de.json
Writing to es.json
Writing to fr.json
Writing to ja.json
Writing to ko.json
Writing to pl.json
Writing to zh-CN.json
Done!

• Add translated strings to the json file as the value of the map where the English phrase is the key.

~/minikube$ head translations/fr.json
{
 "\"The '{{.minikube_addon}}' addon is disabled": "",
 "\"{{.machineName}}\" does not exist, nothing to stop": "",
 "\"{{.name}}\" profile does not exist, trying anyways.": "",
 "'none' driver does not support 'minikube docker-env' command": "",
 "'none' driver does not support 'minikube mount' command": "",
 "'none' driver does not support 'minikube podman-env' command": "",
 "'none' driver does not support 'minikube ssh' command": "",
 "'{{.driver}}' driver reported an issue: {{.error}}": "",

• Add the translations as the values of the map, keeping in mind that anything in double braces {{}} are variable names describing what gets injected and should not be translated.

~/minikube$ vi translations/fr.json
{
        [...]
        "Amount of time to wait for a service in seconds": "",
        "Amount of time to wait for service in seconds": "",
        "Another hypervisor, such as VirtualBox, is conflicting with KVM. Please stop the other hypervisor, or use --driver to switch to it.": "",
        "Automatically selected the {{.driver}} driver": "Choix automatique du driver {{.driver}}",
        "Automatically selected the {{.driver}} driver. Other choices: {{.alternates}}": "Choix automatique du driver {{.driver}}. Autres choix: {{.alternatives}}",
        "Available Commands": "",
        "Basic Commands:": "",
        "Because you are using docker driver on Mac, the terminal needs to be open to run it.": "",
        [...]
}

Adding Translations To an Existing Language

• Run make extract to make sure all strings are up to date
• Edit the appropriate json file in the ’translations’ directory, in the same way as described above.

Testing translations

• You can verify that the translations are syntactically valid by running: go test k8s.io/minikube/pkg/minikube/translate

• Once you have all the translations you want, save the file and rebuild the minikube from scratch to pick up your new translations:

~/minikube$ make clean
rm -rf ./out
rm -f pkg/minikube/assets/assets.go
rm -f pkg/minikube/translate/translations.go
rm -rf ./vendor
~/minikube$ make

Note: the clean is required to regenerate the embedded translations.go file

• You now have a fresh minikube binary in the out directory. If your system locale is that of the language you added translations for, a simple out/minikube start will work as a test, assuming you translated phrases from minikube start. You can use whatever command you’d like in that way.

• If you have a different system locale, you can override the printed language using the LANGUAGE environment variable:

~/minikube$ LANGUAGE=fr out/minikube start
😄  minikube v1.29.0 sur Ubuntu 18.04
✨  Choix automatique du pilote docker. Autres choix: kvm2, ssh
📌  Utilisation du pilote Docker avec le privilège root
👍  Démarrage du noeud de plan de contrôle minikube dans le cluster minikube
🚜  Extraction de l'image de base...
🔥  Création de docker container (CPUs=2, Memory=7900Mo) ...
🐳  Préparation de Kubernetes v1.26.1 sur Docker 20.10.23...
    ▪ Génération des certificats et des clés
    ▪ Démarrage du plan de contrôle ...
    ▪ Configuration des règles RBAC ...
🔗  Configuration de bridge CNI (Container Networking Interface)...
    ▪ Utilisation de l'image gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5
🔎  Vérification des composants Kubernetes...
🌟  Modules activés: storage-provisioner, default-storageclass
🏄  Terminé ! kubectl est maintenant configuré pour utiliser "minikube" cluster et espace de noms "default" par défaut.