Add Docker-first development and setup instructions

[yassinsolim]

Summary

Make the ground station easier to run from a fresh clone without installing ROS on the host.

• Share a pinned ROS 2 Jazzy/Ubuntu base and Docker development, build, and test stages.
• Add a non-root VS Code Dev Container; keep generated workspace files outside the host source mount.
• Run the same Docker test target in Linux x86-64 and ARM64 CI jobs.
• Document first-time setup, headless launch, diagnostics checks, and clean shutdown.
• Add the verified Windows Docker/WSLg RViz command, including terminal and PATH troubleshooting. Keep native Ubuntu and macOS alternatives.

This covers the Docker/setup portion of the team tasks. Teleop, predictive visualization, ML, CAN, and IMU work remain separate.

Validation

On Windows 11 with Docker Desktop's WSL2 backend:

docker build --progress=plain --target test --file docker/Dockerfile --tag waybionic-ground-station:jazzy .

• Ran from a fresh clone of commit 1e69753: 3 packages built; 41 tests, 0 errors, 0 failures, 0 skipped.
• Dev Container startup, workspace build, and ROS package lookup verified during setup.
• Headless launch published /diagnostics; temperature, current, and IMU demo values were received. SIGINT shutdown passed.
• RViz and Joint State Publisher started through WSLg; the user confirmed the graphical demo works.
• Markdown links, code fences, Dev Container JSON, shell syntax, and git diff --check passed.

Limits and Coordination

• Application code is unchanged. The demo uses the placeholder arm and mock data, not physical hardware.
• The WSLg socket path is Docker Desktop-specific and uses software rendering. Native macOS GUI validation is separate.
• The base image is pinned, but apt/ROS dependencies are not fully frozen. CI builds/tests but does not publish a shared project image.
• New workspace packages must be added to the Dockerfile's dependency-manifest COPY list.
• Coordinate this as the shared baseline for Abdullah's Docker task. Fix macOS RViz launch and setup guide #13 also updates the native macOS setup section; preserve those fixes when resolving overlap.
• Original Word onboarding documents are not changed in this PR.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added Docker-based development and testing for ROS 2 Jazzy on Ubuntu 24.04.
  • Added VS Code Dev Container support with automatic workspace setup and builds.
  • Added multi-stage Docker workflows for development, builds, and tests.
  • Added support for validating builds on Linux x86-64 and ARM64.

• Documentation

  • Expanded setup instructions for Docker, VS Code, Windows WSLg, Ubuntu, and native RViz workflows.
  • Updated contribution and README guidance for the Docker-first development process.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved container startup by safely handling workspaces that have not yet been built.

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• .devcontainer/devcontainer.json
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The repository now uses a multi-stage ROS 2 Jazzy Docker workflow. It adds Dev Container support, Docker-based CI for x86-64 and ARM64, updated Docker image setup, and expanded Docker, native Ubuntu, WSL2, and macOS documentation.

Changes

ROS 2 Docker workflow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Docker image build and test pipeline docker/Dockerfile, docker/entrypoint.sh, .dockerignore, .gitattributes	The Dockerfile uses pinned ROS inputs and separate development, build, and test stages. It configures the ubuntu user, workspace environment, dependency installation, build, and test reporting.
Development container and CI integration .devcontainer/devcontainer.json, .github/workflows/ros2_build_test.yml, CONTRIBUTING.md	The Dev Container builds and initializes the workspace. CI builds the Docker test target on x86-64 and ARM64 runners. Contribution checks use the same Docker workflow.
Docker setup and headless workflow documentation BuildInstructions.md, README.md	The documentation adds Docker installation, headless execution, Dev Container usage, reproducibility notes, WSLg RViz instructions, and Docker workflow references.
Native ROS and RViz setup documentation BuildInstructions.md	The documentation adds Ubuntu and WSL2 installation, ROS repository setup, workspace preparation, native build validation, launch instructions, and terminal environment setup.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: haroldmin1028

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1e697

The workflow is broadly mergeable, but container privileges should be narrowed and the existing-clone instructions corrected to avoid an unnecessary security weakness and a failed setup command.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main changes: Docker-first development support and expanded setup instructions.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1…
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Inline comments:
In `@BuildInstructions.md`:
- Around line 317-318: Update the workspace setup instructions around the Linux
clone commands to provide distinct paths for a missing repository and an
existing `~/waybionic_ws/src/waybionic_ground_station` checkout: run `git clone`
only for a new clone, and use the existing workspace directly without cloning.

In `@docker/Dockerfile`:
- Line 22: Harden the Dockerfile user and filesystem permissions: remove the
unrestricted NOPASSWD:ALL sudo rule and update postCreateCommand so it no longer
depends on sudo; keep copied source root-owned in build and test stages, while
granting ubuntu write access only to build, install, and log. Preserve the
source bind mount behavior for editable development and retain ownership changes
only for those workspace output directories.

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[yassinsolim]

Fixed both review items in 9238736. New and existing native workspaces now have separate command blocks. Passwordless sudo and sudo-dependent startup are removed; build/test sources stay root-owned and development sources stay editable. All 41 tests pass, the post-create build passes with UID 12345, and x86-64/ARM64 CI is green.