docker-ros-box

Dockerized ROS environment with hardware accelerated X11 support based on ros-lunar-desktop-full.

Using this project you will be able to run a complete ROS environment inside a Docker container.

This is very handful for example if your host operating system is not debian based.

Credits

This project is inspired by docker-browser-ros, this blog post from Fabio Rehm as well as docker-opengl-mesa for the hardware acceleration support.

Usage

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/pierrekilly/docker-ros-box.git

2. Initialize your ROS box:

./docker-ros-box/init-ros-box.sh [ros_distro] [target]
    ros_distro        The ROS distribution to work with (lunar, kinetic, etc.)
    target            The target directory to deploy the basic setup

Building the docker container image can take some time depending on your internet connexion. Please be patient.

Once the initialization is done, your dockerized ROS box is ready.

In the target directory you will find 4 files:

• ros_distro: This file contains the ROS distribution used in your project. Do not touch this file.
• src: Put your ROS project sources in this directory. It is automatically mounted in ~/catkin_ws/src inside the ROS box so you can work there from your host system.
• go.sh: Run this script to open a shell in in the container. Automatically starts the container if it's not running.

3. Connect to your ROS box

cd [target]
./go.sh

Contribute

Feel free to use this project, fork it and improve it. If you do so, please commit your modifications and open a PR. Thanks! :)

Author

Pierre Killy

License

MIT