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n8n (workflow automation)

1. Overview

n8n is an Atlas service family in the agents category. Its implementation and service-owned documentation live under services/n8n/.

2. Role In Atlas

Atlas uses this service according to its manifest, topology row, SOURCE settings, dependencies, and runtime data-flow declarations.

3. Tracks And Category

  • Category: agents
  • Kind: container
  • Tracks: all, gen-ai-eng

4. Access

  • Kong aliases: n8n.localhost
  • Port variables: N8N_PORT

5. Configuration

  • SOURCE variables: N8N_SOURCE
  • Default SOURCE values: container
  • Available SOURCE values: container, disabled

6. Dependencies And Topology

  • Required dependencies: supabase, redis, litellm
  • Optional dependencies: supavisor
  • Runtime calls: supabase, redis, weaviate, backend, doc-processor, tika, hermes, litellm, stt-provider, tts-provider, searxng, lightrag, crawl4ai, supavisor

7. Source Values

SOURCE Variable Default Values
N8N_SOURCE container container, disabled

8. Runtime Integration

The manifest data-flow list declares runtime calls to supabase, redis, weaviate, backend, doc-processor, tika, hermes, litellm, stt-provider, tts-provider, searxng, lightrag, crawl4ai, supavisor. The topology row supplies aliases and port surfaces used by the generated gateway and service references.

9. Architecture

10. Operations

Use ./start.sh to configure this service through the wizard or pass the matching SOURCE flag when the service is source-configurable. Use ./stop.sh to stop the active Atlas project.

11. Source Documentation