auser / terraform-aws-n8n-automation-tool

Self hosted https://n8n.io/ on AWS using Terraform

terraform-aws-n8n-automation-tool

Introduction

Terraform configuration for self-hosting n8n-io- on AWS using ECS Fargate. n8n is an extendable open-source workflow automation tool.

Resources

• VPC
• AWS ALB
• AWS Aurora MySQL
• AWS Elastic Cache -Redis cluster
• AWS CodePipeline, triggered from a github repo.
• AWS CodeBuild outputting to ECR container registry
• AWS ECS - Fargate

n8n env variables for ECS Service.

Architecture Diagram

Usage

Deployment Guide

• Git clone this project.

• create a terraform.tfvars file locally

• $touch terraform.tfvars and enter the following values

region                = "<AWS_REGION_ID>"
db_name               = "n8n"
aurora_instance_class = "db.t3.small"
aurora_engine         = "aurora-mysql"
aurora_engine_version = "5.7.mysql_aurora.2.10.1"
github_connection_arn = "<GH_CONNECTION_ARN_HERE>"

Configure your AWS access keys as environment variables:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=(your access key id)
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=(your secret access key)

Deploy the code:

terraform init
terraform apply

Codepipeline to build the n8n-debian docker image and rolling deploy to ECS Service for n8n