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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
Advanced n8n Nodes for DevOps Automation
- Webhook node: Managing authentication methods, response modes, and header processing
- HTTP Request node: Handling REST API calls, pagination, error responses, and retry logic
- SSH node: Key-based authentication, remote command execution, and file transfers
- Execute Command node: Running shell scripts, kubectl, and Terraform CLI on the n8n host
- Code node: Using JavaScript and Python for data transformation between pipeline stages
- Git node: Cloning repositories, committing changes, and pushing from within workflows
- Lab: Build a webhook receiver that enriches incoming payloads and dispatches conditional responses
Integrating CI/CD Platforms with n8n
- GitHub node: Dispatching workflows, polling job status, creating releases, and managing issues
- GitLab node: Triggering pipelines, monitoring stage progress, and managing merge requests
- Jenkins node: Managing parameterized builds, querying job status, and handling configuration
- CircleCI and Bitbucket Pipeline nodes: Triggering pipelines and retrieving build results
- Pattern: Creating a multi-platform CI/CD hub with fan-out from a single webhook trigger
- Pattern: Aggregating build status with conditional promotion gates
- Lab: Create a workflow that triggers builds on two CI platforms and waits for both to pass
Workflow Composition and Error Handling
- Sub-workflow node: Breaking monolithic workflows into modular, reusable components
- Error Trigger node: Centralizing error handling for multi-step CI/CD automations
- Switch and Merge nodes: Implementing conditional branching and parallel execution paths
- Schedule Trigger: Cron-based pipeline orchestration and periodic health checks
- Loop Over Items node: Batch processing across multiple repositories or environments
- Lab: Design a modular pipeline with sub-workflows and centralized error routing
Building Continuous Deployment Pipelines
- Environment promotion: Moving from dev to staging to production with manual approval gates
- Infrastructure as Code integration: Triggering Terraform and Terragrunt runs from n8n
- Container deployment: Orchestrating Docker image builds, registry pushes, and service restarts
- Notification integration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email alerts for pipeline events
- Artifact tracking: Capturing and propagating build metadata across pipeline stages
- Lab: Build an end-to-end deployment pipeline with approval gates and multi-channel notifications
n8n Configuration for DevOps Environments
- Docker deployment with PostgreSQL backend and Redis for queue mode execution
- Environment variables and configuration methods for production-grade setups
- Credential management: API keys, SSH keys, OAuth tokens, and credential overwrites
- User management: Role-based access control and team-level permissions
- Security hardening: SSL setup, SSO configuration, and API access control
- Lab: Deploy and configure a production-ready n8n instance using Docker Compose
Monitoring, Logging, and Workflow Observability
- n8n execution data: Viewing, filtering, and exporting workflow run history
- Structured logging configuration and log level management for debugging
- Prometheus-compatible metrics and OpenTelemetry tracing integration
- Building workflow health dashboards with webhook-triggered status checks
- Automated alerting on workflow failures and execution time anomalies
- Lab: Set up monitoring and failure alerting for a multi-step CI/CD workflow
Real-World DevOps Automation Scenarios
- Incident response automation: Alert enrichment, on-call notification, and runbook triggering
- Kubernetes pod health monitoring with automated restart and escalation workflows
- Automated rollback: Detecting deployment failures and reverting to the last known good state
- Configuration drift detection: Comparing deployed state against desired configuration
- Scheduled infrastructure maintenance: Cleanup tasks, snapshot creation, and resource reaping
- Lab: Build a complete incident response workflow with enrichment, notification, and automated remediation
Requirements
- A foundational grasp of DevOps principles and the software delivery lifecycle
- Hands-on experience with Git and at least one CI/CD platform such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
- Comfort with the Linux command line and Docker containers
- No prior n8n experience needed—all nodes and workflows are taught from first principles in a hands-on manner
Target Audience
- DevOps and platform engineers seeking to automate CI/CD pipelines using visual, version-controlled workflows
- Site Reliability Engineers looking to develop incident response and monitoring automations
- Infrastructure engineers responsible for orchestrating deployments across multiple environments
- Teams of up to 13 participants seeking a compact, practical training with immediate on-the-job applicability
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