Hi! I was wondering if there’s already a way to setup a app on heroku to run an instance? I’d love to put my instance there so I can play around from wherever I am.

Yes, there definitely is. Sadly however have I never used Heroku. When I find some time I try to look into it. If not somebody who has more experience answers here first.

Great to know! I’m running everything locally for now maybe I can look into setting up with heroku during the weekend =) Will keep this thread updated!

@jtemporal Did you manage to test on Heroku? cc: @neuromancer1729 I tried to follow: Building Docker Images with heroku.yml | Heroku Dev Center I have a successful build, but am getting application error when trying to run the app. I’m using Heroku Postgres for DB and adding all env variables in…

Is the goal here to have a hosted instance of n8n in the cloud or do you wish to specifically wish to utilise something within the Heroku environment? ie. you can deploy the docker container on Heroku, AWS, Google Cloud, Linode for virtually nothing. If you look long and hard enough you can find clo…

@GavinTomlins In our case the goal is to have n8n running on our Heroku account. The issue with n8n specially in heroku, seems to the the requirement to run as root.

@saal @metalcamp I also ran into the same problem, I have modified the Dockerfile a bit and added a simple start script which does not require sudo privileges. here’s the link to my GitHub repo - GitHub - sarveshpro/n8n-heroku: n8n docker implementation for heroku. Thank you!

Thank you very much @sarvesh for sharing that with the community!

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I’m having same problem - and I’ve already described it here. Linking instead of posting duplicate content.

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