This project will allow you run a portable access point on a Raspberry Pi making use of Docker containers.

Further reference and explanations:

https://fwhibbit.es/en/automatic-access-point-with-docker-and-raspberry-pi-zero-w

Tested on Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Access point configurations

You can customize the network password and other configurations on files at confs/hostapd_confs/. You can also add your own hostapd configuration files here.

Management using plain docker

Add --rm for volatile containers.

Create and run a container with default (Open) configuration (stop with Ctrl+C)

docker run --name autowlan_open --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --network=host  autowlan

Create and run a container with WEP configuration (stop with Ctrl+C)

docker run --name autowlan_wep --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --network=host -v $(pwd)/confs/hostapd_confs/wep.conf:/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf autowlan

Create and run a container with WPA2 configuration (stop with Ctrl+C)

docker run --name autowlan_wpa2 --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --network=host -v $(pwd)/confs/hostapd_confs/wpa2.conf:/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf autowlan

Stop a running container

docker stop autowlan_{open|wep|wpa2}

Management using docker-compose

Create and run container (stop with Ctrl+C)

docker-compose -f <fichero_yml> up

Create and run container in the background

docker-compose -f <fichero_yml> up  -d

Stop a container in the background

docker-compose -f <fichero_yml> down

Read logs of a container in the background

docker-compose -f <fichero_yml> logs