Unifi Controller Self Hosted in Docker - MongoDB

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00:00 - Introduction to Unifi Controller
01:17 - Backup Existing Controller
02:07 - Docker Compose and Init-Script Overview
09:32 - Checking Logs in Portainer
10:33 - Web GUI
10:45 - Restore Config
11:30 - Success!
12:00 - Outro

[CHLEE-ouub]

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

[prswe]

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.

[davidhorton]

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!

[fooch]

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.

[markandrow]

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

[PaulLittlefield]

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

[georgebobolas]

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

[rille]

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.

[JensAndersson]

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.

[Delta-jthd]

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)!

[nonamesi]

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

[alexander.santiago]

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

[McPhailHunt]

This video and his github code examples for the two files were perfect to help me migrate to the newest docker version to host my unifi controller. One thing important is that in my case, I migrated to a new IP address. After migrating, I was stuck in adoption mode for the APs and switches. I was able to fix this by selecting the legacy UI, navigating to Settings, Network Application, Network Application Hostname/IP and then changing that to the new IP address. After that the adoption took place and I'm fully up and running. Thank you for this.

[Vaillant]

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

[stokley]

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!

[jdmcivicrrr]

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 ❤

[eufria]

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.

[greensheen]

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

[MoreHace]

Hey man! many for your video. I am a total newbie trying to understand a bit of this. Just to figure some things out, the server IP address you got there (eg: 10.42.6.220) is that the ip from the internal docker network? or you have done some magic behind the scenes?

Thanks!

[Ian-S.]

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