skeleton for working with realsense in docker

docker-compose.yml

version: "3.8"

services:
  # base container -- will simply exit once brought up
  # we can run commands via this container for running experiments, etc.
  base:
    network_mode: host
    command: bash
    volumes:
      - ./:/app/
    devices:
      - /dev/ttyUSB0
      # the /dev path to the webcam?
    privileged: true

Dockerfile

FROM ros:noetic-ros-base-focal


RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y \
        apt-utils \
        build-essential \
        git \
        python3-pip \
        python-is-python3

WORKDIR /app
RUN mkdir -p /app/src
RUN git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/rickstaa/realsense-ros-gazebo.git src
RUN rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y

# Other commands as necessary

To run this:

docker compose build
docker compose run base bash