Secure n8n Credential Transfer Workflow
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Streamline your n8n environment management by easily transferring credentials between instances. This workflow simplifies sharing and syncing sensitive authentication data, ensuring consistent access across your n8n deployments with a few clicks.
About This Workflow
Manually replicating credentials across multiple n8n instances can be time-consuming and error-prone. This specialized workflow offers a robust solution, allowing you to securely export a selected credential from your current n8n instance and create it on a designated remote instance. It leverages n8n's powerful CLI for local credential export and its API for remote creation, all orchestrated through intuitive interactive forms. Ideal for DevOps teams and administrators, this tool ensures your n8n instances are always aligned with the necessary authentication details, reducing setup overhead and enhancing operational efficiency.
Key Features
- Secure Credential Migration: Transfers selected credentials (decrypted locally) to target n8n instances using the n8n API.
- Interactive Selection: Utilizes user-friendly forms to choose both the destination n8n instance and the specific credential to transfer.
- Multi-Instance Support: Easily configure multiple target n8n instances in a central 'Settings' node.
- CLI & API Driven: Combines n8n CLI for local credential export and n8n's HTTP API for remote credential creation, ensuring reliability.
- Guided Workflow: Provides clear success and failure notifications, guiding users through the transfer process.
How To Use
- Configure Target Instances: In the
Settingsnode, update theremoteInstancesarray with thename,apiKey, andbaseUrlfor each target n8n instance you wish to transfer credentials to. - Ensure CLI Access: Verify that the n8n process running this workflow has access to the
n8nCLI command, as it's used for local credential export. - Run the Workflow: Execute the workflow.
- Choose Destination: An interactive form will appear. Select the desired target n8n instance from the dropdown list.
- Select Credential: Another form will prompt you to choose the specific credential you want to transfer from the current n8n instance.
- Confirm Transfer: The workflow will then execute the transfer, creating the selected credential on your chosen destination instance, and provide a success or failure notification.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "ca3dbcb6-2c1f-42ff-a7e8-4d06dd8d55e5",
"name": "Secure n8n Credential Transfer Workflow",
"nodes": 16,
"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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