Install UniFi Controller in Docker on Firewalla Gold Series Boxes

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Note, although this installer also works on Firewalla Purple, I have seen people have trouble running large docker images on Purple so I caution that this may be too taxing for Puprle. To my knowledge, Firewalla hasn't made any official statement about this, but I felt a warning was justified.

I haven't run the controller on Purple SE so I can't give advice, but I would be cautious about doing this.

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This is a script for installing the UniFi docker container on Firewalla Gold series boxes. It is based on the Firewalla tutorial and has been tested on 1.974 and above.

To install:

1. SSH into your Firewalla (learn how if you don't know how already.)

2. Copy the line below and paste into the Firewalla shell and then hit enter.

curl -s -L -C- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mbierman/unifi-installer-for-Firewalla/main/unifi_docker_install.sh?$(date +%s)" | cat <(cat <(bash))

Standard disclaimer: I can not be responsible for any issues that may result. Nothing in the script should in any way, affect firewalla as a router or compromise security. Happy to answer questions though if I can. :)

Updating docker

From time to time unifi will update the Controller. After vetting it for a while, the owner of the container will update the image. This is a good thing. It means you get some confidence it will run when you update it. I wrote a script to do the updates. I watch when the container is updated and then run the script. You could do this via a cron job (e.g. once a week run the update and if there isn't one it will just exit) but I don't tend to do that since if it goes poorly my controller could be down.

To update the unifi docker container in the future, go to:

/home/pi/.firewalla/run/docker

and run

./updatedocker.sh unifi

Uninstalling

The installer script will remove the unifi docker and ALL related data. If you want to start from square one, you can use this. But be warned, I mean square one. It is currently set to remove all the docker data. I may make it more forgiving in the future, but if things aren't working and you need to start over, this should get you there.

If you want more of a piecemeal approach, see below.

Using an uninsall script

1. ssh to your firewalla. User is always pi and the password comes from the Firewalla app.
2. Run

curl -s -L "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mbierman/unifi-installer-for-Firewalla/main/unifi-uninstall.sh?$(date +%s)" | bash

You should now be back to a clean slate and ready to re-install if you choose do do so.

There are lots of UniFi communities on Reddit and Facebook. If you have UniFi questions, please check there.