Ubiquiti Unifi Controller in a Jail

[rmccullough]

I am finally getting around to replacing my existing TP-Link APs w/ Ubiquiti stuff. I remember reading before that the Unifi Controller can run natively in a jail. Is that still the case? Any gotchas? The threads I see on this are mostly pretty old. Is there a difference between the UniFi 6 vs 7 packages? Or just a newer version? Can I still run older APs on UniFi 7?

The Ubiquiti APs I am buying are older models, like the AP Pro and Pro HD. I think these are all WiFi 5 models. Any gotchas here?

 

[the_jest]

I've been running the UniFi Controller in a jail for some time, with no problems at all. Currently on 7.2.94. Yes, you can run older APs; I only just removed an AC Lite, which is from 2015, a few months ago.

 

[victort]

Create a jail, then a simple pkg install unifi7 will do the trick.

 

[sretalla]

Or pkg install unifi8 if you want the current version...

 

[victort]

Or pkg install unifi8 if you want the current version...

Really? Didn’t find that one in my search.

 

[sretalla]

Really? Didn’t find that one in my search.

Code:

root@unifi:~ # pkg search unifi8
unifi8-8.0.24                  UniFi Controller v8

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Really? Didn’t find that one in my search.

Did you change your pkg repo to "latest" instead of "quarterly"?

Code:

mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
echo 'FreeBSD: { url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest" }' >/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf

 

[victort]

Did you change your pkg repo to "latest" instead of "quarterly"?

Code:

mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
echo 'FreeBSD: { url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest" }' >/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf

No I didn’t. Thanks for that

 

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

UniFi Controller 8.1.113 & MongoDB 5 running on a 13.2 jail, on top of TrueNAS CORE 13.0-U6.1, continuously upgraded since at least UniFi 5 throughout the years, if not even earlier, and no issues what-so-ever (other, of course, than the occasional nuisance when a MongoDB upgrade requires manual intervention for a db migration).