Google Cloud offers several options suitable for hosting n8n, including Cloud Run (optimized for running containers), Compute Engine (VMs), and Kubernetes Engine (containers running with Kubernetes).

Hosting n8n on Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Cloud offers several options suitable for hosting n8n, including Cloud Run (optimized for running containers), Compute Engine (VMs), and Kubernetes Engine (containers running with Kubernetes).

This guide uses the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as the hosting option. If you want to use Cloud Run, refer to these instructions.

Most of the steps in this guide use the Google Cloud UI, but you can also use the gcloud command line tool instead to undertake all the steps.

Hosting n8n on Google Kubernetes Engine

Hosting n8n on Google Kubernetes Engine

Prerequisites

Create project

Enable the Kubernetes Engine API

Create a cluster

Set Kubectl context

Clone configuration repository

Configure Postgres

Create a volume for persistent storage

Postgres environment variables

Configure n8n

Create a volume for file storage

Pod resources

Optional: Environment variables

Deployments

Services

Send to Kubernetes cluster

Set up DNS

Delete resources

Next steps

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