ROS-Dynamic-Executor-Experiments/Dockerfile

# Set the ROS distribution as an argument, defaulting to 'jazzy'
ARG ROS_DISTRO=foxy

# You can find available ROS images here: https://hub.docker.com/_/ros/tags
FROM osrf/ros:${ROS_DISTRO}-desktop

# Set the maintainer information for this Dockerfile
LABEL maintainer="Niklas Halle <niklas@niklashalle.net>"

# Set environment variables
ENV PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

# Set the default shell to bash for RUN commands
# This ensures all RUN commands use bash instead of sh
SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-c"]

# Update the system and install essential tools
# This step upgrades all packages and installs utilities needed for development
RUN apt-get update -q && \
    apt-get upgrade -yq && \
    apt-get install -yq --no-install-recommends \
      apt-utils wget curl git build-essential vim sudo \
      lsb-release locales bash-completion tzdata gosu \
      gedit htop nano libserial-dev ninja-build clang-18

# Update packages and install dependencies
RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y software-properties-common curl build-essential && \
    add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && \
    apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y \
        python3.10 \
        python3.10-venv \
        python3.10-dev \
        python3.10-distutils \
        curl && \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Install additional tools required for ROS 2 development
# These packages help with building and managing ROS 2 workspaces
RUN apt-get update -q && \
    apt-get install -y gnupg2 iputils-ping usbutils \
      python3-argcomplete python3-colcon-common-extensions python3-networkx python3-pip python3-rosdep python3-vcstool

# Set up the ROS 2 environment
# This ensures that ROS 2 commands are available in the shell
# rosdep is a tool for installing system dependencies for ROS packages
RUN rosdep update && \
    grep -F "source /opt/ros/${ROS_DISTRO}/setup.bash" /root/.bashrc || echo "source /opt/ros/${ROS_DISTRO}/setup.bash" >> /root/.bashrc && \
    grep -F "source /usr/share/colcon_argcomplete/hook/colcon-argcomplete.bash" /root/.bashrc || echo "source /usr/share/colcon_argcomplete/hook/colcon-argcomplete.bash" >> /root/.bashrc

# Bootstrap pip manually (recommended way)
RUN curl -sS https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3.10

# Set Python 3.10 as default Python3
RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.10 1

# Install modern nodejs (optional but good practice for JupyterLab widgets)
RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | bash - && \
    apt-get install -y nodejs && \
    npm install -g npm

# Install JupyterLab globally
RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade jupyterlab