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Im trying to find a docker compose that dose not include traffic in it. but i cant find one on the website

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trying to find a docker compose on the website but i cant.

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You’re not missing it, the docs don’t only provide a Traefik example. The Docker Compose page links to the n8n-hosting repo, where n8n provides different setups, and the main Docker docs also include a Postgres compose example.

If you don’t want Traefik, you can start from one of those and run n8n directly, then add Nginx or Caddy later if needed.

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Yeah the docs only have the Traefik version which is annoying, but you really just need something super simple like this:

services:
  n8n:
    image: docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "5678:5678"
    environment:
      - GENERIC_TIMEZONE=America/New_York
      - TZ=America/New_York
    volumes:
      - n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n
volumes:
  n8n_data:

Save that as docker-compose.yml and run docker compose up -d and youll have n8n running on port 5678. If you eventually need HTTPS for production Id look into Caddy as a reverse proxy since its way simpler than Traefik.