diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/changelog/bugfixes/2022-09-13-gettext.md b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/changelog/bugfixes/2022-09-13-gettext.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2d34861365
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/changelog/bugfixes/2022-09-13-gettext.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Added back `gettext` to the OS ([Flatcar#849](https://github.com/flatcar-linux/Flatcar/issues/849))
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/changelog/updates/2022-09-13-gettext.md b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/changelog/updates/2022-09-13-gettext.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..549368a140
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/changelog/updates/2022-09-13-gettext.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- gettext ([0.21](https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/))
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
index 00704e3855..1b31293d59 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos-base/coreos/coreos-0.0.1.ebuild
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 		app-emulation/xenstore
 	)"
 
+# sys-devel/gettext: it embeds 'envsubst' binary which is useful for simple file templating.
 RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	app-admin/etcd-wrapper
 	app-admin/flannel-wrapper
@@ -175,6 +176,7 @@ RDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	sys-block/parted
 	sys-boot/efibootmgr
 	sys-cluster/ipvsadm
+	sys-devel/gettext
 	sys-fs/btrfs-progs
 	sys-fs/cryptsetup
 	sys-fs/dosfstools