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

• n8n
• Ollama
• Qdrant

Updating

• Run docker compose pull to fetch all the latest images
• Run docker compose create && docker compose up -d to update and restart all the containers