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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!

Thanks to Jonathan Crowe, the Director of Community at NinjaOne, for inviting me to be a part of one of the Like a Ninja streams that they host on the NinjaOne YouTube channel every couple of weeks. This stream was on October 9th, 2024 and was a conversation with that Jonathan hosted with Mark Giordano, a Technical Product Manager at NinjaOne and former customer and community member (also known as AiVenom), and me around how to determine the Return on Investment, or ROI, of scripting and automation.

While programmers and technicians are usually somewhat easy to convince about why automating things is worth investing time and effort into, it's not always easy to convince business leadership that automation is worth it, because the business wins aren't always as obvious when automation is approached from a technical perspective.

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

Does it feel like the time you spend on scripting and related training is going unappreciated? Or, worse yet, like you'll never get approval for that in the first place? Effective use of scripting can be a game-changer for IT admins, but unfortunately management doesn't always view it as a priority, and it's rare when the value of it is clearly communicated to all the stakeholders involved.

Join us for tips on how you can better highlight the business value of scripting, and get increased buy-in and support for it as a critical time investment.

Thanks to Jonathan Crowe, the Director of Community at NinjaOne, for inviting me to be a part of one of the Like a Ninja streams that they host on the NinjaOne YouTube channel every couple of weeks. This stream was on February 28th, 2024 and was a conversation with that Jonathan hosted to let me demonstrate how to write PowerShell scripts using an existing script I've published as an example to walk through.

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

Join NinjaOne star David Szpunar as we go over how to write PowerShell scripts like a ninja!

The video is somewhat fast-paced and does assume some beginner knowledge of PowerShell, focusing on the structure of building the structure of a script into a usable whole with various parameters and functions.

Setting Up VS Code and Git Like a Ninja​

If you enjoyed that video, a month later on March 26th, 2024, NinjaOne community member and PowerShell programmer extraordinaire Mikey O'Toole led a follow-up video stream called How to set up VS Code and Git Repo Like a Ninja that helps get you further down the programming rabbit hole with information on how to set up an environment more conducive to writing and debugging PowerShell on your own machine, as well as tracking changes and sharing code using Git and a centralized source such as GitHub or one of the alternative services.