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Container Management

Setting Up

If you don't already have one create a services, create one in the home folder:

mkdir ~/services

For each service that you run, it is recommended to create a new folder with the name of that service, and create a compose file inside that folder. This will make it easy to deploy, share and update these services over time.

To manage your services, we recommend to use podman and oxker, as both are fully managed in the terminal (making management through SSH possible) and updates of podman are simpler. You can install both tools as follows:

brew install podman oxker

N8N

Compose File

Start by creating a folder called n8n and paste the following compose file below:

mkdir ~/services/n8n
compose.yaml
services:
  n8n:
    image: n8nio/n8n:latest
    container_name: n8n
    environment:
      - GENERIC_TIMEZONE=Europe/Zurich
      - NODE_ENV=production
      - N8N_SECURE_COOKIE=false
    ports:
      - "5678:5678"
    volumes:
      - n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  n8n_data:
    name: n8n_data

Then you can run the command:

cd ~/services/n8n
docker-compose up -d

cd ~/services/n8n
docker compose up -d

Updating

Run the following commands to update the n8n container:

docker-compose pull
docker-compose down
docker-compose up -d

docker compose pull
docker compose down
docker compose up -d