GitLab Workflow Sync: N8N Version Control & DevOps
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This n8n workflow empowers robust version control and synchronization for your n8n automations by integrating them with a GitLab repository. It compares your live n8n workflows against their Git-managed counterparts, providing a clear overview of changes and facilitating automated updates to your source control.
About This Workflow
Elevate your n8n workflow management with enterprise-grade version control. This powerful n8n template bridges the gap between your active n8n instance and a GitLab repository, establishing a single source of truth for your automation logic. It intelligently compares your running n8n workflows with their stored JSON definitions in Git, identifying new additions, detecting modifications, and confirming synchronization status. By automating the creation or update of workflow files in GitLab, this solution streamlines your DevOps practices, enhances collaboration, improves auditability, and provides a solid foundation for robust deployment strategies and disaster recovery for all your n8n automations.
Key Features
- Automated Workflow Comparison: Automatically fetches and compares n8n workflows from your instance against versions stored in a GitLab repository.
- Intelligent Change Detection: Accurately flags workflows as 'new' (not in Git), 'diff' (modified in n8n), or 'same' (synchronized), ignoring non-essential metadata changes.
- GitLab Integration: Seamlessly creates new workflow JSON files or updates existing ones in your specified GitLab repository with customizable commit messages.
- Configurable Repository Details: Easily set the target GitLab owner, repository name, branch, and relative file path via global variables for flexible configuration.
- Error Handling: Continues processing even if a file isn't found in GitLab, perfect for detecting new workflows.
How To Use
- Obtain Workflows: The workflow is designed to process individual n8n workflows. To use it comprehensively, add a preceding 'n8n' node (or similar source) to fetch a list of all active workflows from your n8n instance, feeding each workflow's JSON data as an item into the 'Loop Over Workflows' node.
- Configure GitLab Credentials: Ensure you have configured a valid 'GitLab API' credential in n8n, which will be used by the 'Get file', 'Create file', and 'Update file' nodes.
- Set Global Repository Details: In the 'Globals' node, update the
repo.owner,repo.name,repo.branch, andrepo.pathstring values to point to your desired GitLab repository and the base path within it where your workflow JSONs will be stored. - Customize Status Handling: The 'Switch' node directs workflows based on their comparison status ('new', 'diff', 'same', 'error'). Customize the 'Create file' (for 'new' workflows) and 'Update file' (for 'diff' workflows) nodes, or add custom actions like notifications for 'same' or 'error' statuses.
- Run the Workflow: Execute the workflow manually via the 'When clicking "Test Workflow"' trigger, or schedule it to run periodically to maintain continuous synchronization between your n8n instance and GitLab.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "d807a2e2-e5ca-49dd-aca5-ba64934cd16c",
"name": "GitLab Workflow Sync: N8N Version Control & DevOps",
"nodes": 9,
"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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