robolaunch Kubernetes Robot Operator

robolaunch Kubernetes Robot Operator manages lifecycle of ROS 2 based robots and enables defining, deploying and distributing robots declaratively.

Idea
Quick Start
- Installation
- Deploy Your First Robot
Contributing

Idea

The main idea of this project is to manage robots as Kubernetes custom resources. As a custom resource, a robot's lifecycle contains following operations and benefits.

Robot Lifecycle Management
- Deployment
- Update
- Upgrade
- Vertical Scaling
  - Adjusting robot's resources
Robot Observability
- ROS observability tools (eg. rViz, Foxglove, ROS Tracker)
- Exporting ROS nodes, topics, services, actions and bandwidth
GPU Acceleration
- Simulation (Gazebo, Ignition)
- VDI
Geoghraphic Distribution
- Cloud-powered robot
- Cloud-connected robot
Software development lifecycle
- Cloud IDE
Connectivity
- Robot-to-Robot Discovery
- Node-to-Node Discovery

Refer robolaunch.io and project wiki for more architectural details and documentations.

Quick Start

Installation

Label a node in your cluster:

kubectl label <NODE> robolaunch.io/organization=robolaunch
kubectl label <NODE> robolaunch.io/team=robotics
kubectl label <NODE> robolaunch.io/region=europe-east
kubectl label <NODE> robolaunch.io/cloud-instance=cluster
kubectl label <NODE> robolaunch.io/cloud-instance-alias=cluster-alias

Install Robot Operator with Helm:

# add robolaunch Helm repository and update
helm repo add robolaunch https://robolaunch.github.io/charts/
helm repo update
# install chart
helm upgrade -i robot-operator robolaunch/robot-operator  \
--namespace robot-system \
--create-namespace \
--devel

See installation guide for more.

Deploy Your First Robot

Robot deployment steps will be instructed here.

Contributing

Please see this guide if you want to contribute.