As I am currently thinking of exchanging my current WiFi-equipment with Omada, I was searching for a way to self-host the controller in the first step. Using my Synology’s Docker-capabilities paired with a running instance of Portainer here, building a stack with Omada is quite easy:

• Assuming you have the Container Manager running and the share containing your Docker-data is “docker” on “volume1” of your Synology (may me different from your setup), create a folder named “omada” here with three sub-folders: “data”, “logs” and “work”
• Enter Portainer and create a new stack with your preferred name (here: “omada-controller”)
• Use the docker-compose.yaml script located here
• Assure you have the proper UID and GID for your Synology-environment (see Marius’ 5-seconds-way of getting those)
• Wait for the stack to fully initialize (may depend on your Internet connection) and then navigate to http://(NAS-IP):8088 and bypass the certificate error-message. You will be forwarded to https and Port 8043, enabling you to go through the initial setup

That’s it - now you are ready to adopt our first Omada-stuff in your network and your new virtual controller!

This is the small first community on my Lemmy-instance dealing with self-hosting or the different how-to’s regarding self-hosting, mostly paired with Docker and/or Docker-deployments on Synology-systems.