# Copyright (c) 2022-2025, The Isaac Lab Project Developers (https://github.com/isaac-sim/IsaacLab/blob/main/CONTRIBUTORS.md). # All rights reserved. # # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause # Isaac Sim base container: https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/isaac-sim # Please check the NGC container page for license information. # Base image ARG ISAACSIM_BASE_IMAGE_ARG ARG ISAACSIM_VERSION_ARG FROM ${ISAACSIM_BASE_IMAGE_ARG}:${ISAACSIM_VERSION_ARG} AS base ENV ISAACSIM_VERSION=${ISAACSIM_VERSION_ARG} # Set default RUN shell to bash SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-c"] # Adds labels to the Dockerfile LABEL version="2.1.1" LABEL description="Dockerfile for building and running the Isaac Lab framework inside Isaac Sim container image." # Arguments # Path to Isaac Sim root folder ARG ISAACSIM_ROOT_PATH_ARG ENV ISAACSIM_ROOT_PATH=${ISAACSIM_ROOT_PATH_ARG} # Path to the Isaac Lab directory ARG ISAACLAB_PATH_ARG ENV ISAACLAB_PATH=${ISAACLAB_PATH_ARG} # Home dir of the runtime docker user, typically '/root' ARG DOCKER_USER_HOME_ARG ENV DOCKER_USER_HOME=${DOCKER_USER_HOME_ARG} ENV HOME=${DOCKER_USER_HOME} # Set environment variables ENV LANG=C.UTF-8 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive # Base image may end with a non-root user; switch to root for system-level # setup and package installation. USER root # Install dependencies RUN apt-get update && \ apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ build-essential \ libglib2.0-0 \ ncurses-term \ cmake \ git \ wget # arm64-only build deps: # - imgui-bundle has no prebuilt arm64 wheel; needs GL/X11 dev headers. RUN if [ "$(dpkg --print-architecture)" = "arm64" ]; then \ apt-get update && \ apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ libgl1-mesa-dev libopengl-dev libglx-dev \ libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev; \ fi # copy files necessary for installing Isaac Lab and its dependencies # this way we minimize the chance of cache invalidation on file edits COPY ../isaaclab.* ../environment.yml ../pyproject.toml ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/ COPY ../tools/ ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/tools/ COPY ../source/ ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/source/ # Fix the line endings for the shell scripts (Windows git may add \r) RUN find ${ISAACLAB_PATH} -type f -name "*.sh" -exec sed -i 's/\r$//' {} + # Ensure isaaclab.sh has execute permissions RUN chmod +x ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/isaaclab.sh # Set up a symbolic link between the installed Isaac Sim root folder and _isaac_sim in the Isaac Lab directory RUN ln -sf ${ISAACSIM_ROOT_PATH} ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/_isaac_sim # Install toml dependency RUN ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/isaaclab.sh -p -m pip install toml # Install apt dependencies for extensions that declare them in their extension.toml, RUN ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/isaaclab.sh -p ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/tools/install_deps.py apt ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/source && \ apt-get -y autoremove && apt-get clean && \ rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* # for singularity usage, have to create the directories that will binded RUN mkdir -p ${ISAACSIM_ROOT_PATH}/kit/cache && \ mkdir -p ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.cache/ov && \ mkdir -p ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.cache/pip && \ mkdir -p ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.cache/nvidia/GLCache && \ mkdir -p ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.nv/ComputeCache && \ mkdir -p ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.nvidia-omniverse/logs && \ mkdir -p ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.local/share/ov/data && \ mkdir -p ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/Documents # for singularity usage, create NVIDIA binary placeholders RUN touch /bin/nvidia-smi && \ touch /bin/nvidia-debugdump && \ touch /bin/nvidia-persistenced && \ touch /bin/nvidia-cuda-mps-control && \ touch /bin/nvidia-cuda-mps-server && \ touch /etc/localtime && \ mkdir -p /var/run/nvidia-persistenced && \ touch /var/run/nvidia-persistenced/socket RUN --mount=type=cache,target=${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.cache/pip \ ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/isaaclab.sh --install # HACK: Remove install of quadprog dependency RUN ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/isaaclab.sh -p -m pip uninstall -y quadprog # aliasing isaaclab.sh and python for convenience RUN echo "export ISAACLAB_PATH=${ISAACLAB_PATH}" >> ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.bashrc && \ echo "alias isaaclab=${ISAACLAB_PATH}/isaaclab.sh" >> ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.bashrc && \ echo "alias python=${ISAACLAB_PATH}/_isaac_sim/python.sh" >> ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.bashrc && \ echo "alias python3=${ISAACLAB_PATH}/_isaac_sim/python.sh" >> ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.bashrc && \ echo "alias pip='${ISAACLAB_PATH}/_isaac_sim/python.sh -m pip'" >> ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.bashrc && \ echo "alias pip3='${ISAACLAB_PATH}/_isaac_sim/python.sh -m pip'" >> ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.bashrc && \ echo "alias tensorboard='${ISAACLAB_PATH}/_isaac_sim/python.sh ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/_isaac_sim/tensorboard'" >> ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.bashrc && \ echo "export TZ=$(date +%Z)" >> ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.bashrc && \ echo "shopt -s histappend" >> ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.bashrc && \ echo "PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a'" >> ${DOCKER_USER_HOME}/.bashrc # Create the non-root runtime user after root-only image setup is complete. # The uid/gid 1000 match GitHub runner bind mounts used by Docker tests. # --non-unique is required because some base image revisions already carry # another user or group at uid/gid 1000. RUN groupadd --non-unique --gid 1000 isaaclab \ && useradd --non-unique --uid 1000 --gid 1000 -M -l -s /bin/bash -d ${DOCKER_USER_HOME} isaaclab RUN chown -R isaaclab:isaaclab \ ${ISAACLAB_PATH} \ ${DOCKER_USER_HOME} # Open up traversal of the Isaac Sim root and runtime home for non-root users. # Inner Isaac Sim files keep their original permissions, so avoid chowning the # full install. Keep the runtime home closed to unrelated users. RUN chmod 755 \ ${ISAACSIM_ROOT_PATH} \ && chmod 750 \ ${DOCKER_USER_HOME} # copy the rest of the files COPY --chown=isaaclab:isaaclab ../ ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/ # Pre-create every docker-compose named-volume mount point and hand it to the # non-root runtime user. docker-compose.yaml is the single source of truth for # the list; docker/utils/volume_mounts.py parses it so the paths are not # duplicated here. A fresh named volume inherits ownership from the image # directory at its mount path; if that directory is missing or root-owned, the # volume comes up root-owned and the isaaclab user cannot write it (e.g. # PermissionError creating logs/, or omni.datastore lock failures under # kit/cache). set -o pipefail makes a parse failure abort the build: # volume_mounts.py exits non-zero on an empty/unresolved list and grep exits # non-zero if no paths are produced, so the build fails here rather than # silently shipping an unprepared mount point. RUN set -o pipefail \ && export DOCKER_ISAACSIM_ROOT_PATH="${ISAACSIM_ROOT_PATH}" \ DOCKER_ISAACLAB_PATH="${ISAACLAB_PATH}" \ DOCKER_USER_HOME="${DOCKER_USER_HOME}" \ && dirs="$(${ISAACLAB_PATH}/isaaclab.sh -p ${ISAACLAB_PATH}/docker/utils/volume_mounts.py | grep '^/')" \ && mkdir -p ${dirs} \ && chown -R isaaclab:isaaclab ${dirs} USER isaaclab # make working directory as the Isaac Lab directory # this is the default directory when the container is run WORKDIR ${ISAACLAB_PATH}