Docker image for REB450x

This dockerfile repo is for ROS2 and gazebo image, by default it tries to attach my workspace directory. You can attach your own workspace by passing appropriate flags in the launch script (more on this below)

To run:

• install docker from here
• also follow post-installation steps for linux if you dont want to run docker in sudo
• install docker python package to make life easy for controlling docker

pip install docker

• build the image

./build.sh

• run the python script to start and connect to the instance

python ./start_docker_instance.py 

• for more options and defaults

python ./start_docker_instance.py --help

Following are some of the help options

• for custom container name --name <name_you_want>
• for interactive shell --it
• for attaching your own volume --workspace <absolute_path_to_your_ws>
• to get display out of docker give --display
• make sure to run xhost local:root before launching the container from image
• example: to run interactive shell with display, run the following

#make sure existing docker image is already not spinned
xhost local:root
python ./start_docker_instance.py --it --display