Workflow automation

This chapter explores the concept of automated tasks that go beyond traditional server scheduling tasks such as Crontab.

Here, automated tasks are defined as periodic, rule-based activities that are executed through scripts or specialized tools.

Automation not only increases work efficiency and reduces error rates, it also frees up human resources. This allows them to focus on more creative and complex tasks.

Websoft9 suggest you use n8n for automation, n8n is a user-friendly UI workflow automation with many use cases:

1. Server Maintenance Tasks: Automated data backup, log cleanup, time synchronization, and security scans.
2. DevOps Workflows: Automated processes like code review, source code compilation, and automated testing.
3. Application Integration: Automating data and process integration between different application systems.

Launch n8n

1. Login to Websoft9 Console, and install n8n by App Store

2. Login to n8n console to start automation workflow

Use cases

Use cases for using n8n:

📄️ Schedule jobs

A skilled user knows when and how to schedule tasks to be executed at specific intervals, whether they're recurring or happen a set number of times. You can apply this skill in many scenarios, such as scheduling backups, collecting system logs periodically, or automating basic and repetitive tasks.

📄️ Auto DevOps

Auto DevOps is a collection of pre-configured features and integrations that work together to support your software delivery process. Auto DevOps detects your programming language and uses CI/CD templates to create and run default pipelines to build and test your application. Then, you can configure deployments to deploy your apps to staging and production, and set up review apps to preview your changes per branch.

📄️ Integrate data

n8n lets you connect all of your marketing, CRM tools to give you a much easier time managing your leads. And prevent engineers from doing menial work for other departments like Marketing and Sales, and help entry-level engineers and interns be more productive.

FAQ

Can I use n8n replace Linux Crontab?

Yes, n8n can have more ability