aimost.pl - n8n + Cloudflare Tunnel

Project for running n8n with access through aimost.pl domain using Cloudflare Tunnel.

Architecture

• n8n: Workflow automation platform (port 5678)
• Cloudflare Tunnel: Traffic proxying from aimost.pl to n8n
• Docker Compose: Container orchestration
• Redis: Queue backend for n8n executions
• n8n worker: Executes jobs from the Redis queue

Requirements

1. Docker and Docker Compose
2. .env file with environment variables
3. cloudflared/credentials.json file with Cloudflare credentials

Setup

1. Create .env file:

DOMAIN_NAME=example.com
# n8n
WEBHOOK_URL=https://n8n.example.com
N8N_HOST=n8n.example.com
N8N_PORT=5678
N8N_BASIC_AUTH_ACTIVE=true
N8N_BASIC_AUTH_USER=admin@example.com
N8N_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD=supersecret
N8N_ENCRYPTION_KEY=please_set_a_secure_random_key
# Database
POSTGRES_DB=n8n
POSTGRES_USER=n8n
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=changeme

2. Add Cloudflare credentials:

# Copy from your Cloudflare dashboard
cp ~/.cloudflared/credentials.json cloudflared/credentials.json

Usage

Start:

./start.sh

Stop:

./stop.sh

Check status:

docker ps --filter "name=n8n" --filter "name=n8n-worker" --filter "name=redis" --filter "name=cloudflared"

Data Management

Backup n8n data:

docker run --rm -v n8n_data:/data -v $(pwd):/backup alpine tar czf /backup/n8n_backup.tar.gz -C /data .

Restore n8n data:

docker run --rm -v n8n_data:/data -v $(pwd):/backup alpine tar xzf /backup/n8n_backup.tar.gz -C /data

Migrate from local folder (if upgrading):

# If you have existing n8n_data/ folder, run this once:
docker run --rm -v n8n_data:/dest -v $(pwd)/n8n_data:/src alpine cp -a /src/. /dest/

Access

After startup, n8n will be available at: https://aimost.pl

Project Structure

project_root/
├── cloudflared/
│   ├── config.yml          # Cloudflare Tunnel configuration (not in git)
│   ├── config.yml.template # Cloudflare Tunnel configuration template
│   └── credentials.json    # Credentials (not in git)
├── docker-compose.yml     # Docker Compose configuration
├── start.sh              # Start script
├── stop.sh               # Stop script
└── .env                  # Environment variables (not in git)

Docker volumes:
└── n8n_data              # n8n persistent data (Docker named volume)
└── postgres_data         # Postgres persistent data
└── redis_data            # Redis persistent data (AOF)

Important

• n8n data is saved in Docker named volume n8n_data (persistent across deployments)
• Make sure .env and credentials.json files are not committed to git
• n8n is configured with basic authentication and HTTPS protocol