n8n Prototype (Terraform)

This small Terraform prototype deploys n8n as an ECS Fargate service with EFS-backed storage and an Application Load Balancer. It's deliberately lightweight so you can run it standalone for testing or integrate its ECS/Target Group pieces into a larger infrastructure such as the cortex project.

What this contains

• ECS cluster and Fargate service running the official n8nio/n8n image
• ECS Task definition with an EFS-backed volume and required IAM roles
• AWS EFS file system, access point and mount targets
• Application Load Balancer + Target Group + Listener (HTTP)
• Security group suitable for ALB <> ECS <> EFS communication

Quick start (standalone)

1. From the testing/n8n-prototype folder run:

terraform init
terraform validate
terraform apply -auto-approve

2. After apply completes, the ALB DNS is available as the n8n_url output.

Note: By default this prototype uses the default VPC and will try to create resources in that VPC.

Set variables via CLI or a tfvars file, e.g. terraform apply -var='assign_public_ip=true'.

Outputs

• n8n_url - ALB DNS name for accessing n8n (prepend http:// or https:// as appropriate).