Installing Unifi Network Controller Using Docker and Ubuntu

Why?

Usually, the Unifi Network Controller is installed on your personal computer, but, if you want to install it in a virtual machine, you can do that.

Reqs?

Here we're using a Virtual Machine Ubuntu 20.04 for this, running inside a Hypervisor ProxMox 7.4.

How?

creating the directory

mkdir -p /opt/unifi/controller/docker
mkdir -p /opt/unifi/controller/data/sites/default
cd /opt/unifi/controller/docker

create a docker-compose file

vim docker-compose.yml

insert the content bellow

---
version: "2.1"
services:
  unifi-controller:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/unifi-controller:7.3.83
    container_name: unifi-controller
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
    volumes:
      - /opt/unifi-controller/config:/config
    ports:
      - 8443:8443
      - 3478:3478/udp
      - 10001:10001/udp
      - 8080:8080
    restart: unless-stopped

in my case, since I'm using USG Router with two WAN connections, and I want to redirect ports to the WAN2, I'll create a file /opt/unifi/controller/data/sites/default/config.gateway.json with the content bellow

{
	"port-forward": {
		"wan-interface": "eth2"
	}
}

This will set the eth2 as the default interface for port-forward, usually it's the eth0. Now le'ts spin up the container.

docker-compose up -d

and now you can access the dashboard from your browser

https://your_ip_here:8443

[s] Guto

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