ROS2 containers and networking

ROS2 employs RTPS which relies on the multicast networking

1. ROS 2 and Kubernetes Basics

2. ROS 2 on Kubernetes: a simple talker and listener setup

3. Distribute ROS 2 across machines with MicroK8s

4. Exploring ROS 2 Kubernetes configurations

More of the related stuff

• Discussion: ROS 2 on Kubernetes

• ROS2 Tutorial Deploying on IBM Cloud Kubernetes (community-contributed)

• Robotics Distributed System based on Kubernetes

• Kubernetes Robotics Distributed System Deep Dive

• FastDDS - New Discovery Server

• 96boards: Autoware everywhere | Running Cyclone DDS on Kubernetes

Reference:

• Container networking overview

• containernetworking/cni CNI - the Container Network Interface

• Kubernetes Documentation/Getting started

Network troubleshooting:

• Nmap Cheat Sheet 2025: All the Commands & Flags

• netshoot: a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container