[Help]: Upgrade to V6 - MongoDB V8

[randomguy1991]

Controller Version

V6

Describe Your Issue or Question

Currently we are required to upgrade the MongoDB to V8, however some CPU is not eligible for AVX thus unable to upgrade. Is there a way to have a MongoDB V4 version released to ensure those who can't upgrade to V8 can still run the latest version of Omada.

Expected Behavior

Error message:

INFO: running hardware prerequesite checks to ensure your system supports MongoDB 8...ERROR: your system does not support AVX which is a requirement for MongoDB starting with 5.x; you will not be able to upgrade

Steps to Reproduce

Ran the following:

docker run -it --rm
-v omada-data:/opt/tplink/EAPController/data
mbentley/omada-controller:mongodb-upgrade-3.6-to-8

How You're Launching the Container

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Container Logs

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MongoDB Logs

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Additional Context

No response

[mbentley]

Well, I wasn't sure if someone would run into the AVX or armv8.2-a support requirement so quickly but now that we're here, I do have addressing what to do for those scenarios that block the MongoDB upgrade in #443 in the work list.

That being said, there are a few difficult things about supporting an image that has MongoDB 4.x. That version only supports as recent as Ubuntu 20.04 which is end of life and receives no more updates, which is why the MongoDB upgrade is required in the first place. The solution that I was going to propose for people who can't upgrade but still want to run the latest versions is to switch to an external MongoDB. I need to revamp those instructions there as they're quite out of date and I still need to ensure that an external MongoDB works on 6.x as well.

[mbentley]

Just FYI, I did just update the README for the external MongoDB to have some slightly more detailed instructions and I did verify that v6 does work with external MongoDB.