🔐 Secure Self-Hosted Automation Platform

n8n + Cloudflare Zero Trust

This project demonstrates how to securely expose a locally hosted n8n instance to the internet without opening inbound ports, using:

Cloudflare Tunnel
Cloudflare Zero Trust (OTP-based access)
Dockerized n8n with persistent storage

🏗 Architecture

The architecture includes Cloudflare Edge, Zero Trust Access, a secure tunnel, and a local Docker-hosted n8n instance bound to 127.0.0.1.

Secure n8n Architecture with Cloudflare Zero Trust

📌 Full architecture diagram and implementation details are available here:

👉 View full documentation on GitHub

🔒 Security Highlights

No inbound firewall ports exposed
Identity-based access using Cloudflare Zero Trust
Selective webhook bypass for machine-to-machine traffic
Local-only n8n binding