Unifi Controller Self Hosted in Docker - MongoDB 

Thanks again James, Seamless migration to new docker (now with Traefik) and successfully restored backup from old Docker. 👍

Very straightforward and to the point. Having the files available on GitHub is a bonus. I was up and running in short order. Thank you!

Thanks a lot for this video! Worked well. I used '8' for the Mongo tag since 4 seemed a bit outdated at this point. I had no idea my controller was so out of date, ultimately ended up here because I couldn't adopt the new 2.5G Flex Mini!

Finally migrated from CloudKey gen 1 to Docker on Linux. Your configuration files really helped me with the database integration. Thanks. I especially appreciate your calm and clear voice.

Thanx mate! Worked like like a charm from 7.x with internal "db" to 8.x w external mongo db , for my install I removed the networks and labels stuff from Your composer file (since i do not use it) - and 1 2 3 restore backup and it was up n running! Great video got rid of all my config/install questions and made it all so much simpler.

Absolutely superb video. I’m just about to jump from Unifi 7 to 8 with external MongoDB and this is so useful, many thanks!

Many thanks for your detailed explanation! I used linuxserver/unifi-controller in the past, but switched to jacobalberty/unifi when linuxserver separated MongoDB into an external dependency. jacobalberty/unifi has served me well, but it seems that it's updated a lot less frequently than linuxserver. I started reading linuxserver documentation to prepare for migrating back. This video answered all of my remaining questions. I feel much more prepared to jump back (to get a more up-to-date controller)!

Thank you Jim! Really appreciate this video with the instructions making it available with Traefik. Just found your channel a few weeks ago and am enjoying everything you’re doing. Thanks for all this great content and explaining it very clearly and easily to follow.

Thank you James, greate again fully detailed tutorial, specially Docker configed with Traefik. 👌 👍

Perfect video as always, thanks Jim. was gonne move my unify controller from my home assistant to its own place in docker so this is perfect timing for me.

Great video... I use newer docker compose version (3.x instead of 2.x), and unifi controller utilizes the "depends_on: unifi-mongo" command so the startup order is correct

Great content as always, and even better timing, to migrate our old containers!

Thanks Jim for your videos. I'm just getting in homelabing and wanting to learn proxmox, truenas, Kubernetics, and all that jazz. Keep it up ❤

This tutorial was wonderful…moved my instance off my rpi onto a unbuntu server running docker nice and easy! Thanks

Nice video, thank you for showing how to make it work with reverse proxy as I did not figure that one on my own.

Super helpful! Thank you so much for sharing!

Thanks for sharing this great guide! I'm now running this on a raspberry pi 4 and to get it to work i had to use mongo:4.4.18 . Other versions complained about the ARM Architechture.

LIFESAVER! Btw for old server peeps like myself, use Mongo version 4.4

I love how EVERY transition is a twirl. You deserve your creative license there - because the quality is A+++. lol

This was so helpful, thanks a lot.

Just an FYI as your video pulled down Unifi Network Application 8.0.26 as latest. MongoDB 3.6 through 7 is supported as of UNA version 8.1

I would love to see a video on using this with `docker stack deploy`. It's unable to identify the devices initially because it has to use an overlay network, when Im guessing it needs an IP on the physical network. Haven't found a solution to this issue yet, but I'm firm on hosting it within a swarm for high availability so I continue to dig.

Hi Jim. I am interested in using the UniFi cameras on my network. I remember hearing that the cameras run on UniFi Protect. I'm not sure if this is separate from UniFi Network. Would this docker container support the cameras as well?

Another great vidoe, JIm! Unfortunately I do not get it to work in Docker Swarm yet. Is there anything I still need to change (except the overlay network(s))?

I didnt realize you can use unifi access points with other hardware. I bought udm pro se for all this. But I am pretty happy with udm pro se.

okay im glad i watched this ill update this sooner rather than later i do have a few questions i have the linux server hosting docker on a different vlan that thw switch is you mentioned about this in the video what i had to do is setinform manually by running the command i do just want to eliminate that but i cant get myself to put the server on a physical network here is my question what rules do you use to have seem-less adoption

Thanks Jim for the great video!! Just wondering have you configured the backup configuration post migration ? It seems moved to unifi mongo docker not able to create the auto backup. I am getting db error. Would you able to validate that it’s working ? Thanks

Thanks for the video Jim, After completing the installation and restoring from a backup that I made from my cloud key, I am brought to the login screen however NONE of my logins work. I'm quite baffled by this. I'm still able to login to the cloud key that the backup was made from. I've tried "root", "admin", "ubnt" and anything else I can think of but I just can't login at all. Any ideas to help me out? Would be greatly appreciated!

i get an "Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-mongo.js'" what can i do? the file location is correct and its correctly mounted. How can i grant access to the file? My NAS is on Ubuntu OS (UGOS)

Been looking for a good Unifi container vid. This looks good. I run the Unifi network application on a separate Linux box right now (not in a container). Been running for months with no problems. I’ve installed docker on another Linux machine and created the containers like in your vid. I run the up command. Everything looks good per the logs (via Portainer). I have a basic flat network. The Unifi network app web page comes up (comes up on any PC on the network). I recovered my backup from my working Unifi network app on the separate Linux box. However, the Unifi devices are just grayed out in the Unifi equipment list. Am I getting something wrong in docker networking? Does this have anything to do with the inform address?

So if I don't use proxy, I skip line 46, 60 and 61? And If I go with NGINX in the future I need to either add them again, or do something else? And thanks for the video!!

at 11:30 the version you were signing into was 8.0.26, but the dashboard at 11:40 was 8.0.24. ?¿

Hi Jims, I have a quetion, about update unifi controller application. how can i do this?

Where in unifis documentation does it say the regular self hosted controller is deprecated? I want to update my self hosted controller to version 8, if possible.

4 videos in a week? Jim you don’t need to go this hard. Calm down 😅

can you say, why devices status on unifi controller are offline? i have restore file from backup. but it isnt work. alle device are offline... who can i fix this? thanks.

"If you're considering installing it on a Raspberry Pi 4, I advise against it. The Raspberry Pi 4 uses an ARM8 processor, and unfortunately, MongoDB no longer supports this architecture as of version 4.4. Additionally, there are persistent issues when running UniFi on Docker. Devices frequently switch between offline and online states, and there are constant problems with adapting and readapting. Sometimes, it's impossible to adapt them at all, even if you've set the correct controller address in Settings > Advanced - Overide. I've also experienced data loss on my SD card three times and once on my HDD. The last time, I couldn't even restore from a backup. Devices wouldn't adapt, even through SSH. Those that I did manage to restore ended up malfunctioning soon after. Eventually, I opted to purchase a dedicated controller, and I haven't had any issues since then."

Any suggestions on why I get "***aborting after fassert() failure" in my logfiles. It only cycles through the same lines ending with "***aborting after fassert() failure". I hame my data folder mounted on a NAS using CIFS shares. When I inspect the unifi controller container it's waiting for MongoDB do be reachable.

Do I need a reverse proxy? what is the benefit of using it? I'm running nginx proxy manager. how do I config this?

Awsome, but I get this error message:WARNING: MongoDB requires ARMv8.2-A or higher, and your current system does not appear to implement any of the common features for that! applies to all versions ≥5.0, any of 4.4 ≥4.4.19 Im runing ubuntu on a raspberry pi 4, maybe that doesnt work?

Does any one also run into the problem that login is not possible after restoring? Seems to be a common issue…

Can't seem to get this working as non-root, any suggestions?

Now what about updates?? How do you update through Docker??

@khanhthedag7269 vor 0 Sekunden that 's mean, i have to reset all the device? (before I have another IP. Now, I install sophos xg home. than new VM has new IP on Portaine/Traefik etc. Than, I install unifi contoller like you. The nw VM has new IP. And on backup file is als IP. That's why, all device are offline. now, I have to reset all? right?

Understood like 1% of this. Doesn't look like I'm gonna be using docker, way too complicated

Thanks for Tutorial. I have install. If I call the domain (or IP:8443), it show this. HTTP Status 404 - Not Found why? Can you help me.

without mongodb?

did you actually delete my post? sjeez

Just what I was looking for! thanks