This repository is used to create the official ev3dev docker images. The images themselves are hosted at http://bintray.com/ev3dev/docker.

There are many images. Here's how to sort them out.

• The image names follow the pattern ev3dev-<dist>-<hardware>-<variant>.
  • <dist> is the Debian distribution it is based on, e.g. jessie, squeeze...
  • <hardware> is the hardware platform, e.g. ev3 for LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, bone for BeagleBone, rpi for Raspberry Pi 0/1 and rpi2 for Raspberry Pi 2/3.
  • <variant> describes which extra packages are installed. base is a minimal system. generic is what is used for the official image releases.

• First, you will need to install Docker Engine on your system.

• Then grab an ev3dev image:

    docker pull ev3dev/ev3dev-jessie-ev3-base
  

• Make a shorter name for the image:

    docker tag ev3dev/ev3dev-jessie-ev3-base ev3
  

• And start a shell as the robot user in the image:

    docker run -it ev3 su -l robot
  

• Share what you learn. We are new to docker, so we are interested to hear how you use it.

• You can use a specific version of an image by adding a "tag" to the name:

    ev3dev/ev3dev-jessie-ev3-base:2016-08-11