Unifi Network Application 8.0.7 with mongodb - docker-compose.yml

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.7'

services:

  unifi-db:
    image: docker.io/mongo:latest
    container_name: unifi-db
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data/db
      - ./init-mongo.js:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-mongo.js:ro
    restart: unless-stopped

  unifi-network-application:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/unifi-network-application:8.0.7
    container_name: unifi-network-application
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - MONGO_USER=unifi
      - MONGO_PASS=GETYOUROWNPASSWORD
      - MONGO_HOST=unifi-db
      - MONGO_PORT=27017
      - MONGO_DBNAME=unifi
      - MEM_LIMIT=1024 #optional
      - MEM_STARTUP=1024 #optional
      - MONGO_TLS= #optional
      - MONGO_AUTHSOURCE= #optional
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
    ports:
      - 8443:8443
      - 3478:3478/udp
      - 10001:10001/udp
      - 8080:8080
      - 1900:1900/udp #optional
      - 8843:8843 #optional
      - 8880:8880 #optional
      - 6789:6789 #optional
      - 5514:5514/udp #optional
    restart: unless-stopped

init-mongo.js

db.getSiblingDB("unifi").createUser({user: "unifi", pwd: "GETYOUROWNPASSWORD", roles: [{role: "dbOwner", db: "unifi"}]});
db.getSiblingDB("unifi_stat").createUser({user: "unifi", pwd: "GETYOUROWNPASSWORD", roles: [{role: "dbOwner", db: "unifi_stat"}]});

If you use docker compose up -d then you can immediately run docker compose logs -f. Alternatively, don't run in detached mode and you'll get logs directly from stdout with just docker compose up

For the mongo container, you need that init-mongo.js file in the same directory as the docker compose file for that bind mount on line 10. Without that it won't initialize the unifi database.

If you've already tried and failed, make sure you clear out the existing database in the data folder between retries. You need to create that empty folder if it doesn't exist already.

Share the logs and we can go from there.

Also docker ps is useful to check what the container is doing if you're not getting logs from it.

Thanks. I verified the javascript file is in the right place. But, I've been using container manager for this work so it seems I will need to ssh to the synology and run these commands. I can only open the terminal on the running container. Thanks again.

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