N8n

Workflow automation with a visual editor and hundreds of integrations

n8n on Cubeship

n8n is a workflow automation tool: connect APIs, databases and services with a visual editor, and run the workflows on your own server.

This template installs it on a Cubeship instance with the managed Postgres it keeps workflows, executions and credentials in.

What it creates

n8n — the editor and webhook endpoint, from n8nio/n8n:2.38.7, answering on the domain you choose.
n8n-db — a managed Postgres 18 database, attached to the app.

What you are asked

Input	What to give
Where the editor answers	A domain you control, pointed at your instance.
The key n8n encrypts stored credentials with	Nothing — the instance generates it and shows it once. Keep a copy: a new key cannot read credentials saved under the old one.

After installing

Open the domain and create the owner account.
Webhooks are served at https://<your domain>/webhook/….

The URLs assume the instance serves HTTPS. On an instance with TLS off, change N8N_PROTOCOL to http and WEBHOOK_URL to start with http://.

What is not kept

The app has no disk of its own, so anything n8n writes outside Postgres is gone on the next deploy — community nodes installed from the editor, and binary data if you switch it to filesystem mode. Workflows, executions and credentials are in the database and stay.

Resources

The app is limited to 1 CPU and 1 GiB of memory. Raise limits in template.yaml for heavy workflows.

What this creates

n8n

n8nio/n8n:2.38.7

n8n-db

Postgres 18

template.yaml

# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://cubeship.dev/schema/template/v1.json
version: 1
minCubeship: "0.6.0"
project: n8n

inputs:
  - key: domain
    type: domain
    label: Where the editor answers
  - key: encryptionKey
    type: secret
    label: The key n8n encrypts stored credentials with
    help: Keep a copy. Without it, credentials saved in n8n cannot be read again.
    generate: 32

databases:
  - key: db
    name: n8n-db
    engine: postgres
    version: "18"
    database: n8n

apps:
  - key: web
    name: n8n
    image: n8nio/n8n
    tag: "2.38.7"
    port: 5678
    health: /healthz
    domains:
      - host: ${input.domain}
    attach:
      - database: db
    limits: { cpu: 1, memory: 1Gi }
    env:
      # n8n reads its connection piece by piece, not from DATABASE_URL.
      DB_TYPE: postgresdb
      DB_POSTGRESDB_HOST: ${db.db.host}
      DB_POSTGRESDB_PORT: ${db.db.port}
      DB_POSTGRESDB_DATABASE: ${db.db.name}
      DB_POSTGRESDB_USER: ${db.db.user}
      DB_POSTGRESDB_PASSWORD: ${db.db.password}
      N8N_ENCRYPTION_KEY: ${input.encryptionKey}
      N8N_HOST: ${input.domain}
      N8N_PROTOCOL: https
      N8N_PROXY_HOPS: 1
      WEBHOOK_URL: https://${input.domain}/