Installation via Docker

Docker Hub

Drake’s published Docker images are no longer supported as of 2026-06-01. The last stable release to receive updates was v1.53.0. This page serves as a historical record for how to install Drake via published Docker images.

For users who want to run Drake in Docker, a sample Dockerfile is given below that you can customize to fit your needs. To learn about other installation methods, refer to Installation and Quickstart.

FROM ubuntu:noble
RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
  && apt-get update -qq \
  && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -o Dpkg::Use-Pty=0 -qy \
    ca-certificates wget \
  && wget -O drake-noble.tar.gz https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/drake/releases/download/v1.53.0/drake-1.53.0-noble.tar.gz \
  && tar xvf drake-noble.tar.gz -C /opt \
  && /opt/drake/share/drake/setup/install_prereqs -y \
  # Bake model data into the image up-front, instead of fetching on demand.
  && PYTHONPATH=/opt/drake/lib/python3.12/site-packages python3 -c \
    'from pydrake.all import PackageMap; PackageMap().GetPath("drake_models")' \
ENV PATH="/opt/drake/bin:${PATH}" \
  PYTHONPATH="/opt/drake/lib/python3.12/site-packages:${PYTHONPATH}"

To learn about other installation methods, refer to Installation and Quickstart.

If you experience any problems with or have questions about Drake, please ask for help.

Historical Notes

Drake published pre-compiled binaries as Docker images on Docker Hub. Refer to Supported Configurations for additional compatibility details.

Drake’s Docker images do not support the Gurobi solver. To use Gurobi, you will need to build Drake from source following the instructions in Source Installation.

Old stable images can be pulled from Docker Hub as follows:

docker pull robotlocomotion/drake:X.Y.Z

Refer to Release Notes for a list of published X.Y.Z version numbers.

The Docker tags for Drake’s stable releases are spelled like:

  • noble-X.Y.Z for the Ubuntu 24.04 image of Drake vX.Y.Z.
  • X.Y.Z is a synonym for noble-X.Y.Z.

Old nightly images can be pulled from Docker Hub as follows:

docker pull robotlocomotion/drake:latest

The Docker tags for Drake’s nightly releases are spelled like:

  • noble-YYYYMMDD for the Ubuntu 24.04 image of Drake as of date YYYY-MM-DD.
  • noble is a synonym for the most recent noble-YYYYMMDD.
  • YYYYMMDD is a synonym for the most recent noble-YYYYMMDD.
  • latest is a synonym for the most recent YYYYMMDD.

Refer to Quickstart for next steps.