Run ROS Indigo / Ubuntu Trusty within Docker on Ubuntu Xenial or on any platform with a shared username, home directory, and X11.
This enables you to build and run a persistent ROS Indigo workspace as long as you can run Docker images.
Note that any changes made outside of your home directory from within the Docker environment will not persist. If you want to add additional binary packages without having to reinstall them each time, add them to the Dockerfile and rebuild.
For more info on Docker see here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/ubuntulinux/
This will create the image with your user/group ID and home directory.
./build.sh IMAGE_NAME
This will run the docker image.
./dock.sh IMAGE_NAME
The image shares it's network interface with the host, so you can run this in multiple terminals for multiple hooks into the docker environment.
The setup.sh script will automatically download and install all necessary pieces to run a ros container with CUDA, OpenGL, Tensorflow, and ROS. It sets up and installs a script called rosdocker which will run the container or connect to it for you.
To run multiple gazebo instances in the same container...
export GAZEBO_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11355
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