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title: n8n
created_date: 2025-07-17
updated_date: 2025-07-17
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# n8n

[You NEED to Use n8n RIGHT NOW!! (Free, Local, Private) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONgECvZNI3o&ab_channel=NetworkChuck)

[How to Run n8n Locally (Full On-Premise Setup Tutorial) - YouTube](https://youtu.be/-ErfsM2TYsM)


n8n loves connections incoming and outgoing

networking is important about


## Installation on VPS
Prerequisites
1. we need a domain and point it to our n8n instance
2. Cloudflare: Tunnels
--> cloudflare creates a secret tunnel from our domain name to our n8n instance bypassing our server firewall, such that the public internet can access n8n without any issues

![[Pasted image 20250717210347.png]]

### Cloudflare Setup
I set up cloudflare to create a tunnel from my domain to my vps brom.
Zero Trust: Tunnel
Keys in Lastpass

I had an issue with setting up n8n with cloudflare because my dns cache on my mac prevented accessing the site. In the end after resetting this, everything worked just fine.

## Automate Everything

n8n can run commands and integrates with many services like google drive or other webapps. This means we can easily create automations for pretty much anything.


## Automation ideas
- [ ] read my daily obsidian note --> if i have a medical entry add to medical database, record general data that can be fetched later.
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