rostainer-package

A rostainer plugin that builds deployable images of a ROS workspace, for robots: the workspace baked in and built, in a bundle that needs only Docker on the target.

pipx inject rostainer rostainer-package   # or: pip install 'rostainer[package]'
rostainer init --with package            # adds [plugins.package] to .rostainer.toml
rostainer package create                 # build a bundle in builds/package/<version>/
rostainer package install builds/package/<version> --start   # try it here

On the target, the bundle brings its own rostainer, which needs only Docker and Python: ./rostainer install --start (or --enable systemd), then ./rostainer status | logs | shell | stop | start | restart | rollback, and the plugins' commands (./rostainer archive rotate).

[plugins.package]
build_type = "Release"     # CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
sudo = false               # keep sudo rights for the container user
healthcheck = ""           # e.g. "ros2 node list | grep -q /my_driver"
host_pre_script = ""       # runs on the host before the source is copied in
keep = 3                   # package images/bundles 'rostainer prune' keeps

See the Packaging guide.