From Ruffin White via ros-users@
Hello everyone,
I'm happy to announce that ROS now has an official Docker Hub repository for ROS images [1].
You
may remember earlier this year I asked the ROS community if there was
any interest in starting such project [2]. Well, a few months and an
OSRF internship later, OP is here to delver!
The
official repository has been up for some time now, and it seems word
has already gotten around as the project currently has +1000 downloads
(and I know that wasn't just me), but I waited on announcing this until I
had a bit of documentation and tutorials to go with it. So I'd also
like to point out the Docker section that has been added to the ROS Wiki
[3].
Another thing to add is that I have done
the same for the Gazebo community as well, so if you'd like to start
building your cloud based simulation clusters or quickly play with the
latest version of Gazebo, v6.0, regardless of the dependencies you may
not have installed on your workstation, you can download the official
Docker Hub image for Gazebo [4].
The available
ROS tags include supported distros, both Jade and Indigo, along with a
hierarchy tags based off the most common meta-package dependencies:
- ros-core: barebone ROS install
- ros-base: basic tools and libraries (also tagged with distro name with LTS version as `latest`)
- robot: basic install for robots
- perception: basic install for perception tasks
The
rest of the common meta-packages such as desktop and desktop-full are
hosted on automatic build repos under OSRF's Docker Hub oginsanal
profile [5]. These meta-packages include graphical dependencies and hook
a host of other large packages such as X11, X server, etc. So in the
interest of keep the official images lean and secure, the desktop
packages and perhaps more will just be hosted with OSRF's profile.
And as another plug for ROSCon 2015 [6], I'll also be giving a short presentation on this topic:
ROS
+ Docker: Enabling Repeatable, Reproducible, and Deployable robotic
software via Linux Containers. So if you'd like to meet up and talk
about shipping software containers in robots, I'll see you there.
If you have any technical questions feel free to ask on answers.ros.org with the tag "Docker", give me a ping @ruffsl, and feel free to help me flesh out the wiki docs!
Special thanks to OSRF for making this possible,
Ruffin
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