n8n - a fair use code, self hosted info transform & workflow automation tool w/ drag and drop ease.

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00:00 Beginning
00:09 About n8n
01:45 Thank you to my Patrons over at Patrion, and my subscribers on YouTube
02:20 Supporting n8n Open Source / Pricing (Discount Code in Description)
06:09 Documentation of Self Hosting
09:25 Installing n8n on Docker
14:40 Testing our New Install
15:05 Setup a Revers Proxy with a Subdomain
17:05 Initial Setup of n8n (first run)
17:50 Using the n8n Web Interface
20:55 About Webhooks in n8n
22:45 Setting up a full Workflow Example in n8n
33:40 Checking Workflow Executions in Production mode

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=== Attributions ===

[JakobKobberholm]

Love your content, but your take on the licenses is factually incorrect. Partly because Jan misrepresents their license, I believe.

First, please don't refer to fair-code licenses as open source. Jan doesn't even do this (any more) and strictly refers to it as source-available.
A key feature of open source is the ability to use the software for any purpose and the ability to fork the software and take it in your own direction.
Fair-code does not allow you to do this.
Fair-code is functionally identical to freeware, but with the ability to view the code.

Second, you refer to the old license as "Apache 2.0 GPL". This is incorrect. The old license was Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause.
GPL is a completely different set of licenses made by the Free Software Foundation and are not related at all.

Third, Jan understates how restrictive the Sustainable Use License (SUL) is, compared to the Commons Clause.
The SUL prohibits ALL commercial external use and requires a particular license for embedding it in other solutions (n8n.embed). The Commons Clause allows for this, as long as the value of the product is not derived "entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the [fair-code] Software"

E.g. if Home Assistant wanted to use n8n for automations, nobody would be allowed to sell HA products without paying for n8n.embed licenses.
With Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause, they would.

This may sound like a minor issue, but HA is made up of hundreds of moving parts. What would the open source world look like, if every component had their own license fees attached?

Fourth, As Chandan Puri mentioned, the software is owned entirely by the company n8n and if they go bust, change direction, sell the project or simply change to a closed source model, you're completely locked out, just like you would be with normal proprietary software.

I am not against fair-code software at all, but it's important to recognize that for all practical intents and purposes, this is closer to freeware, than to open source.

[ssddanbrown]

Great video! I do though, as an Open Source Maintainer myself, want to echo the comments from others about N8N not being Open Source, since it's still described as such in the video title.
Using the term for projects that aren't aligned with the core free spirit of Open Source dilutes the term and reputation built up by those that are, or have previously been, taking the risk in sharing their projects under a license that meets the common definition. Open Source prioritizes the freedom of the code and its consumers first whereas licenses such as used by N8N prioritizes the author. Not that I think that's bad in itself, but there's a common problem of projects/companies riding on the reputation of Open Source while actually acting as examples of its erosion.

[Vercci]

Kinda like a self-hosted Zapier solution... very neat

[cursoderobotica]

This software is similar to Node-Red !! 😊 nice video! Thank you

[BlueBearOne]

I appreciate you and your work. Thank you!

[benjibenning]

Like a super lightweight Apache NiFi with wizards for home use. nice!

[CMDRSweeper]

Interesting piece of software that had me intrigued enough to check out a lot of the features.
It is clearly a bit more involved with web based tasks than what I really want it to do, meaning I will have to do a lot of scripting still.
I basically needed it do some permission check and fire off a command to fix them, but it does seem like that may be a bit harder to set up.

[Darkk]

Wow.. Nice find on the dbeaver MySQL mgt tool. Looks very similar to Microsoft's.

[EwanSadie]

How would you rate this compared to node-red

[ricsanders]

Would you say that this is similar to IBM's Node Red? Node Red uses the Apache License 2.0! Thank you for the video...I'm going to check this out.

[alcenicorrea]

could you record a video teaching how to import and export flow and credentials no n8n?

[PapaSharmaJi]

Very informative. As Always. Thank You

[gabrielferrer]

Do you get issues connecting when using the credentials of a self hosted ERPNext?

[chandanpuri]

It has a restriction on selling the software as a service. So if the current maintainers go under there wouldn't be much financial incentive for anyone else to continue development. That isn't open source, its code available and free for internal use.

[Glatze]

Hi, here another interesting topic for a new video: paperless-ngx

[fauzifauzi]

Hi, I always looking forward to your videos about self hosted open source. Do you know anything about some self hosted app to manage and or monitor health of family members?

[magicmanj]

Im trying to get latest video from youtube channel and feed it into my discord server, but no idea where to start, I know there are intergrations for both lol

[qmster]

NOOOO T_T
Why wouldn't you enable HTTP/2 support?!
T_T
😭😭😭😭😭😭

[qmster]

oh no, you do the same silly thing as me with docker volume mounts in one directory in home xD "for backup purposes"

[mohamedsulaimaansheriff]

Is there any tool like open source object storage same like Amazon S3 bucket