Automate n8n Workflow Cloning and Synchronization Across Instances
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Effortlessly manage and synchronize your n8n workflows across multiple instances. This powerful workflow automates the cloning of workflows from a source n8n environment to a destination, ensuring consistency and reducing manual effort for environment replication or migration tasks.
About This Workflow
Gone are the days of manually replicating n8n workflows between your development, staging, and production environments. This n8n workflow leverages the n8n API to intelligently identify workflows present in a source instance but missing from a destination instance (based on workflow name). It then proceeds to clone these missing workflows, including all their nodes and connections, into the target instance. For enhanced organization, newly cloned workflows are automatically assigned to a specified project within the destination n8n environment, making cross-instance synchronization and environment management smoother and more reliable.
Key Features
- Automated Workflow Synchronization: Automatically detect and clone workflows that exist in a source instance but not in a destination, ensuring environment parity.
- Cross-Instance Migration: Streamline the migration of workflows from one n8n instance to another (e.g., from a local development setup to a cloud production instance).
- Intelligent Duplicate Prevention: Uses workflow names to prevent recreating existing workflows, only cloning truly new or missing ones.
- Project Assignment: Automatically assigns newly cloned workflows to a designated project within your destination n8n instance for better organization.
- Batch Processing: Efficiently handles multiple workflows by processing them in configurable batches.
How To Use
- Configure Source Instance Credential: In the
GET - Workflowsnode, update the 'n8nApi' credential to point to your source n8n instance where workflows will be read from. - Configure Destination Instance Credential: In the
GET - Destination Workflows,CREATE - Workflow,n8n - GET - Projects, andPUT - Workflow in Projectnodes, update the 'n8nApi' credential to connect to your destination n8n instance where workflows will be created. - Specify Destination Project: In the
Filter Projectnode, configure the filter to identify the specific project in your destination n8n instance where you want the cloned workflows to be assigned (e.g., by project name). - Run Workflow: Execute the workflow. It will identify workflows in the source not present in the destination, clone them, and assign them to the specified project.
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Workflow JSON
{
"id": "e75cd663-306c-4c73-a1ec-fb2a4c61441c",
"name": "Automate n8n Workflow Cloning and Synchronization Across Instances",
"nodes": 10,
"category": "DevOps",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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