ROS In Docker Container

May 7, 2020 One-minute read

Docker • ROS • python

docker • Dockerfile • melodic • python • ROS • python3

ROS (Robot Operating System) - Documentation - http://wiki.ros.org/

In this example I use docker image of ROS Melodic and a Dockerfile for creating the required docker container. Python3 (python3.7) is also installed in this example.

Please refer https://docs.docker.com/get-started/ for more information on Dockers.

Pull the docker image for ROS Melodic
```
 docker pull ros:melodic
```

Creating the Dockerfile

 FROM ros:melodic
 MAINTAINER dhanoopbhaskar@gmail.com
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y \
     && apt-get install -y software-properties-common \
     && add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa \
     && apt-get install -y python3.7

 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     python-pip \
     python3-pip \
     python3-all-dev

 RUN apt-get install -y \
     python3-rospkg*

 RUN apt-get update --fix-missing
 RUN dpkg --configure -a
 RUN apt-get install -f
 RUN apt-get install -y \
     ros-melodic-desktop-full --fix-missing
 RUN apt-get install -y python-catkin-tools

 RUN apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests -y \
     build-essential \
     cmake \    
     python3.7-dev \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

 RUN python -m pip install --upgrade pip
 RUN python2 -m pip install --upgrade pip
 RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
 RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip
 RUN pip3 install --upgrade setuptools
 RUN python3.7 -m pip install --upgrade pip
 RUN python3.7 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools

Now create the docker using this Dockerfile and run 😊 (Refer documentation for more information).