Deploy and Host N8N with Workers

What is N8N?

N8N with Workers is a scalable, production-ready n8n automation setup using distributed workers for parallel task execution. Redis is used as the job queue/broker to manage task distribution, while PostgreSQL provides durable, reliable storage for workflows, logs, and execution data. This high-availability architecture enables efficient workflow handling, parallelism, and large-scale automation suitable for robust enterprise use.

About Hosting N8N with Workers

Deploying N8N with Workers on Railway involves running n8n in queue mode alongside multiple distributed worker containers. Redis handles job distribution, while PostgreSQL serves as the workflow database. With Railway, you can easily orchestrate these services through managed templates, configure environment variables for seamless integration, and enable persistent storage with resilient backups. Railway’s scalable infrastructure allows you to add more worker containers as automation workloads increase, ensuring reliability, speed, and minimal operational overhead, perfect for scaling business automation solutions.

Common Use Cases

Enterprise workflow automation: Execute hundreds or thousands of automation jobs in parallel using scalable worker architecture.
Background task processing: Offload heavy-lifting tasks (APIs, data sync, complex transformations) from the n8n UI to background workers for improved reliability.
Automated data pipelines: Build and orchestrate ETL pipelines, connecting disparate tools and services with durable, distributed processing.

Dependencies for N8N with Workers Hosting

Redis: Required as the queue backend for orchestrating job distribution.
PostgreSQL: Central workflow database for n8n state, logs, and configuration data.
Node.js runtime or Docker (supported by Railway): Used to run all n8n containers (web, worker, triggers).

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy N8N with Workers on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.
By deploying N8N with Workers on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.