Automating with n8n Stream (Like a Ninja)

Thanks to the NinjaOne Community Team for inviting me to be a part of the panel today to discuss how to get started with n8n on their regular Like a Ninja streams that they host on the NinjaOne YouTube channel. This stream was on August 7th, 2025 and was a conversation that NinjaOne's Brittany hosted to discuss how workflow automation via the n8n open source tool can be an effective way to automate things within an MSP.

The video is about an hour long. Here it is, following the official stream description:

Join community members as they share examples of how they're using the workflow automation tool n8n to help their teams do more with less. We'll dive into the practical step-by-steps for getting started, highlight key do's and don'ts and also a Q&A.

There were several tools and sites mentioned in the stream, but I did specifically mention a GitHub repository with templates for deploying n8n with Caddy via containers to a cloud server using podman on AlmaLinux. One of many options for n8n deployment, with the self-hosted version providing more Community Nodes support compared to the cloud-hosted version that n8n provides themselves and is also worth checking out.

This is the third stream where I've been a guest of NinjaOne, the others you can see were on writing PowerShell scripts in How to Write PowerShell (Like a Ninja) and a session on Proving the ROI of Scripting and Automation (Like a Ninja). Thanks to NinjaOne for the invitation!