N8n migrate from one AKS to another

[EmeraldHerald]

Hi @Shalini

While I don’t have any personal experience with AKS, nor do we have any documentation on AKS specific migration, this should be pretty similar to other migrations. You would need to copy the existing database and the .n8n data directory.

This post is a little bit older and while not AKS-specific, has a wonderful guide on how to migrate a database:

How to migrate from SQLite to PostgreSQL?

So turns out it wasn’t too hard in the end. Here’s what I did. Scenario: You have two instances of n8n running, an old one using SQLite with a couple of active workflows and a new one using PostgreSQL without any data yet. You want to move over existing workflows and credentials without having your users re-create them or copy them over manually. Copy the config file with the encryptionKey from the .n8n directory of the old instance to the new one In the .n8n directory of the old instance, op…