OS Chatbots with n8n and Ollama in GCP

Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 -0600

I’ve given talks before about n8n and chatbots. I’ve been using n8n for years now and have had a few articles about it. But in almost all cases, I’m running n8n locally in Docker or my local Kubernetes.

How hard would it be to pivot to using Cloud Compute? Could we run n8n in Cloud Run, especially as there are now persistent Cloud Run instances? What about GCP Cloud Compute? Could we even run some small LLM models in Ollama without the GPU tax? How would that compare with Gemini API keys or an SA that uses Agent Platform?

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OS Chatbots with n8n and Ollama in GCP