Requirements

	Supported
OS	Ubuntu 26.04
ROS 2	Lyrical
Gazebo	Jetty, installed as ROS 2 Lyrical’s ros_gz dependency (the default pairing); no separate Gazebo install needed

Docker container: drydock

The drydock project is the standard, repeatable, documented development environment for the gz-maritme project and hence this project.

drydock maritime: build, run and join

Follow the quick start instructions for drydock project, specifically the maritime container.

Build the container and then open a bash shell inside the container:

git clone https://github.com/HonuRobotics/drydock.git && cd drydock
./drydock build maritime      # build the project described in projects/maritime
./drydock run maritime        # starts the container, opens a shell

If you need an additonal bash shell, join the running container:

./drydock join maritime

See ./drydock -h for more options.

Once you are running in the container shell, proceed wtih source installation here: installation.md.