Automated Workflow Versioning and Synchronization with GitHub
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This n8n workflow automates the versioning and synchronization of your n8n workflows with a GitHub repository. It intelligently detects new, modified, or identical workflows, ensuring your codebase remains up-to-date.
About This Workflow
This powerful n8n workflow is designed to streamline your n8n development process by integrating directly with GitHub. It provides robust version control for your n8n workflows, ensuring that changes are tracked, managed, and readily available. The workflow begins by triggering an execution, then attempts to retrieve existing workflow files from GitHub. It intelligently compares the current n8n workflow with its stored version, categorizing it as 'new', 'different', or 'same'. Based on this classification, it either creates a new file in GitHub, updates an existing one, or does nothing if the workflow is unchanged. This automation significantly reduces manual effort and the risk of errors, maintaining a clean and synchronized repository.
Key Features
- Automatic Workflow Detection: Identifies new, modified, or unchanged n8n workflows.
- GitHub Integration: Seamlessly creates, updates, and manages workflow files in your GitHub repository.
- Intelligent Comparison: Compares JSON structures to accurately determine workflow differences.
- Commit Message Generation: Automatically generates descriptive commit messages including status and workflow name.
- Error Handling: Includes basic checks for file retrieval and content.
How To Use
- Trigger: Initiate the workflow manually or via an external trigger.
- n8n Node Configuration: Configure the 'n8n' node to connect to your n8n instance using the provided credentials.
- GitHub File Retrieval: The 'Get File' node fetches the current workflow version from GitHub using the
download_urlprovided by the n8n API. - Conditional Logic: The 'If file too large' node checks for the existence of content or errors in the retrieved GitHub file, indicating whether it's a new or existing workflow.
- Merge Items: Combines data from the original GitHub file (if found) and the current n8n workflow.
- Difference Analysis: The 'isDiffOrNew' code node compares the original and current workflow JSON, determining if they are 'same', 'different', or if the workflow is 'new'. It also formats the new/different workflow JSON for GitHub.
- Status Check: The 'Check Status' node routes the workflow based on the comparison result ('same', 'different', 'new').
- GitHub File Creation/Update: For 'new' or 'different' workflows, the 'Create new file' GitHub node commits the updated workflow to your specified GitHub repository with an informative commit message. For 'same' workflows, a 'Do nothing' node is executed.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "12f070b7-f00f-4e0d-967a-4ee1368cc5d7",
"name": "Automated Workflow Versioning and Synchronization with GitHub",
"nodes": 24,
"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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