Error deploying N8N to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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I’m trying to deploy N8N to the AWS cloud (runs fine locally) but an encountering significant issues each time. I reached out to AWS support and they weren’t sure how to resolve this. In short, each time I deploy the repo to AWS Elastic Beanstalk I see the following error:

Quit unexpectedly after launch: not run as process with ID 1 because › that will cause › problems with shutting everything down correctly. If started with docker › use the › flag "--init" to fix this problem!

I am attempting to deploy the following Dockerrun.aws.json file (image is hosted on AWS ECR). Any advice would be appreciated!

{
  "AWSEBDockerrunVersion": "1",
  "Image": {
    "Name": "xxxxxxx.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/n8n:latest",
    "Update": "true"
  },
  "Ports": [
    {
      "ContainerPort": "5678"
    }
  ]
}
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It sounds like you are using a very old version of n8n. In the past it was not allowed to have n8n start as the process with the ID 1 (so exactly like the error message mentions) that is however not the case anymore. So if you use the latest n8n version the problem you face should disappear.

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Ah yes, the dockerfile is correct.

What version number do you supply? Because like you can see here is that error message not in the repository anymore:

So it looks like you are using somehow use old code or an old version.

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You did not answer my question from above. What version-number are you supplying?

The dockerfile is the least important thing in all of that. It more or less does not matter at all as it does not contain any code. What is important is what version number you supply, as only that one decides which code gets used. If you supply an old version number, it will use the code of that old version.

For your information, the latest version is 0.36.1

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Hi @jan,

Please can you share any doco on how to deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Thank you.
Fola

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Hi @Fola, welcome to the community :tada:

There is no Beanstalk-specific documentation but you can find a bunch of example setups at Server setups - n8n Documentation.

If you run into any trouble with this, could you perhaps open a new thread and share all relevant information? This topic is over three years old and quite a bit has changed since. Thank you!

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Hi @MutedJam,

Thank you…for the response. I would have a check of it. I would let you know if I have any issues.

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