n8n Demo setup

This repo helps quickly bootstrap an n8n demo environment using docker-compose.

Requirements

Docker compose
Optionally an Nvidia GPU for faster inference on Ollama

Setup

Clone this repo
Optionally edit the credentials in the .env file
Start the containers:
- If you have an Nvidia GPU, run docker compose --profile gpu-nvidia up
- Otherwise to run inference services on your CPU, run docker compose --profile cpu up
Wait a couple of minutes for all the containers to become healthy
Open http://localhost:5678 in your browser and fill in the details
Open the included workflow: http://localhost:5678/workflow/srOnR8PAY3u4RSwb
Wait until Ollama has downloaded the llama3.1 model (you can check the docker console)

Included service endpoints

Local files

When running the demo for the first time, Docker will create a folder shared next to the docker-compose.yml file. You can add files to that, that will be visible on the /data/shared folder inside the n8n container, and you can use that, for example, with the Local File Trigger node.

Updating

Run docker compose pull to fetch all the latest images
If you use Ollama, use either docker compose --profile cpu pull or docker compose --profile gpu pull to pull the correct ollama images
Run docker compose create && docker compose up -d to update and restart all the containers

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