ROS 2 (Robot Operating System)

This is an Ansible Role that installs ROS 2 (Robot Operating System) on Ubuntu. 🤖

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Here are the available variables and their default values (found in defaults/main.yml):

# GPG key for ROS2 installation
ros2_gpg_key_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.asc
ros2_repository_url: http://packages.ros.org/ros2/ubuntu

# Choose distribution: bouncy; crystal; dashing (LTS); eloquent; foxy (LTS)
ros2_distribution: foxy

# Choose configuration: desktop (recommended); ros-base (minimal installation)
ros2_configuration: desktop

# Default user details for the catkin workspace installation
ros2_user:
    name: ubuntu
    group: ubuntu

dev_ws: dev_ws

ros2_domain_id: 0

install_argcomplete: true

# List of additional ROS packages to install without the ros-<distro> prefix
ros2_packages: 

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Here’s an example to install the full desktop configuration of ROS with turtlesim, using a custom (existing) username:

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  become: true
  vars:
    ros2_user:
        name: rarrais
        group: rarrais
    ros2_configuration: desktop
    ros2_packages:
      - turtlesim
  roles:
    - rarrais.ros2

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2019 by Rafael Arrais.