Hi everyone, Question regarding the architechture, I’m currently running n8n on 2 datacenters, while keeping a master DNS record that points to one of the instances. On the “main site” the instance is turned on and on the other site it is turned off, both of the instances import all the workflow…

Hey @Raggingpuppies , The main instance for n8n can’t be ran in an active / active setup so you would need to take an active / passive approach to it at the moment. In your case though as your sites are split and you are doing your data syncing using Git you could in theory run both instances at th…

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EmeraldHerald October 19, 2023, 2:31pm 3

Hi @Raggingpuppies

This isn’t really supported at the moment, but you could vote on this feature request and also mention your use-case in the thread here: Several n8n instances (main mode) on Kubernetes

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