Introducing n8n - n8n Tutorial

- [Instructor] N8N is an open source AI workflow automation tool or AI orchestration tool. Using n8n, you set up workflows in a visual environment like the one you see here, where you start off with a trigger, then set up some sequence of actions that include AI tools, external tools, functions, whatever you desire to perform some specific output. And in this environment, you can use tools provided by n8n. You can create your own custom tools using code, and you can even bring in and integrate your own external tools. The application falls in the same category as Make and Zapier with one significant difference. That n8n is open source. You can go to GitHub, download n8n onto your computer and install it locally on your system or in the cloud. This means individuals, companies, and enterprises can set up n8n in whatever secure environment they have on-prem or in the cloud in secure storage and have complete control over what happens. And because it's open source, you are free to do whatever you want with it, plug in your own AI models, hook it up to your own systems. Whatever you want to do and whatever you want to build. n8n allows you to do it. Working with n8n, you have two main options. You can use the cloud service by going to n8n.io. Click get started and sign up for an account. Or you can self-host n8n. If you choose this option, the recommendation is to host it somewhere in the cloud, so you have a URL you can reference anytime you are using webhooks. The easiest way to do this is through a Docker installation, and if you go over to the sidebar in documentation, under server setups, you'll see you have server setups for all the major services, including Digital Ocean, Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services. As I record this course, I'm using my own account on n8n Cloud, and if you want to follow along without doing any of the installation, you can sign up for your own free 14 day trial on n8n.io. The features you'll see in this course are the same whether you use this cloud version or the self-hosted version somewhere in the cloud.