# ============================================================================== # DISTROLESS RUNNERS IMAGE # ============================================================================== # This is a distroless variant of docker/images/runners/Dockerfile, intended # for cloud deployments. It removes all shell, package managers, and system # utilities for security hardening. # # Key differences: # - Uses Debian-based builders (glibc instead of musl) # - Final image is Google's distroless/cc-debian12 # - Extra runtime-prep stage to organize filesystem # - Uses distroless nonroot user (UID 65532) # ============================================================================== ARG NODE_VERSION=24.13.1 ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.13 # ============================================================================== # STAGE 1: JavaScript runner (@n8n/task-runner) artifact from CI # ============================================================================== FROM node:${NODE_VERSION}-bookworm-slim AS javascript-runner-builder COPY ./dist/task-runner-javascript /app/task-runner-javascript WORKDIR /app/task-runner-javascript RUN corepack enable pnpm # Remove `catalog` and `workspace` references from package.json to allow `pnpm add` RUN node -e "const pkg = require('./package.json'); \ Object.keys(pkg.dependencies || {}).forEach(k => { \ const val = pkg.dependencies[k]; \ if (val === 'catalog:' || val.startsWith('catalog:') || val.startsWith('workspace:')) \ delete pkg.dependencies[k]; \ }); \ Object.keys(pkg.devDependencies || {}).forEach(k => { \ const val = pkg.devDependencies[k]; \ if (val === 'catalog:' || val.startsWith('catalog:') || val.startsWith('workspace:')) \ delete pkg.devDependencies[k]; \ }); \ delete pkg.devDependencies; \ require('fs').writeFileSync('./package.json', JSON.stringify(pkg, null, 2));" # Install moment by default (special case for n8n cloud) RUN rm -f node_modules/.modules.yaml && \ pnpm add moment@2.30.1 --prod --no-lockfile # ============================================================================== # STAGE 2: Python runner build (@n8n/task-runner-python) with uv # Produces a relocatable venv tied to the python version used # ============================================================================== FROM python:${PYTHON_VERSION}-slim-bookworm AS python-runner-builder ARG TARGETPLATFORM ARG UV_VERSION=0.8.14 RUN set -e; \ apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends wget ca-certificates && \ case "$TARGETPLATFORM" in \ "linux/amd64") UV_ARCH="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" ;; \ "linux/arm64") UV_ARCH="aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu" ;; \ *) echo "Unsupported platform: $TARGETPLATFORM" >&2; exit 1 ;; \ esac; \ mkdir -p /tmp/uv && cd /tmp/uv; \ wget -q "https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/${UV_VERSION}/uv-${UV_ARCH}.tar.gz"; \ wget -q "https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/${UV_VERSION}/uv-${UV_ARCH}.tar.gz.sha256"; \ sha256sum -c "uv-${UV_ARCH}.tar.gz.sha256"; \ tar -xzf "uv-${UV_ARCH}.tar.gz"; \ install -m 0755 "uv-${UV_ARCH}/uv" /usr/local/bin/uv; \ cd / && rm -rf /tmp/uv && \ apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* WORKDIR /app/task-runner-python COPY packages/@n8n/task-runner-python/pyproject.toml \ packages/@n8n/task-runner-python/uv.lock** \ packages/@n8n/task-runner-python/.python-version** \ ./ RUN uv venv RUN uv sync \ --frozen \ --no-editable \ --no-install-project \ --no-dev \ --all-extras COPY packages/@n8n/task-runner-python/ ./ RUN uv sync \ --frozen \ --no-dev \ --all-extras \ --no-editable # Install the python runner package itself into site packages. We can remove the src directory then RUN uv pip install . && rm -rf /app/task-runner-python/src # ============================================================================== # STAGE 3: Task Runner Launcher download # ============================================================================== FROM debian:bookworm-slim AS launcher-downloader ARG TARGETPLATFORM ARG LAUNCHER_VERSION=1.4.3 RUN set -e; \ apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends wget ca-certificates && \ case "$TARGETPLATFORM" in \ "linux/amd64") ARCH_NAME="amd64" ;; \ "linux/arm64") ARCH_NAME="arm64" ;; \ *) echo "Unsupported platform: $TARGETPLATFORM" && exit 1 ;; \ esac; \ mkdir /launcher-temp && cd /launcher-temp; \ wget -q "https://github.com/n8n-io/task-runner-launcher/releases/download/${LAUNCHER_VERSION}/task-runner-launcher-${LAUNCHER_VERSION}-linux-${ARCH_NAME}.tar.gz"; \ wget -q "https://github.com/n8n-io/task-runner-launcher/releases/download/${LAUNCHER_VERSION}/task-runner-launcher-${LAUNCHER_VERSION}-linux-${ARCH_NAME}.tar.gz.sha256"; \ echo "$(cat task-runner-launcher-${LAUNCHER_VERSION}-linux-${ARCH_NAME}.tar.gz.sha256) task-runner-launcher-${LAUNCHER_VERSION}-linux-${ARCH_NAME}.tar.gz" > checksum.sha256; \ sha256sum -c checksum.sha256; \ mkdir -p /launcher-bin; \ tar xzf task-runner-launcher-${LAUNCHER_VERSION}-linux-${ARCH_NAME}.tar.gz -C /launcher-bin; \ cd / && rm -rf /launcher-temp && \ apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* # ============================================================================== # STAGE 4: Node Debian base for JS task runner # ============================================================================== FROM node:${NODE_VERSION}-bookworm-slim AS node-debian # ============================================================================== # STAGE 5: Runtime preparation # ============================================================================== # Prepare a clean filesystem structure with all necessary files before # copying to the distroless base. This stage runs with a shell so we can # create symlinks and organize files properly. # ============================================================================== FROM debian:bookworm-slim AS runtime-prep # Copy Python runtime COPY --from=python-runner-builder /usr/local/bin/python3.13 /runtime/usr/local/bin/python3.13 COPY --from=python-runner-builder /usr/local/lib/python3.13 /runtime/usr/local/lib/python3.13 COPY --from=python-runner-builder /usr/local/lib/libpython3.13.so* /runtime/usr/local/lib/ # Copy Python dependencies (architecture-specific directories) # The /* glob will match x86_64-linux-gnu or aarch64-linux-gnu COPY --from=python-runner-builder /lib/*-linux-gnu* /runtime/lib/ COPY --from=python-runner-builder /usr/lib/*-linux-gnu* /runtime/usr/lib/ # Copy Node.js runtime COPY --from=node-debian /usr/local/bin/node /runtime/usr/local/bin/node # Copy task runners COPY --from=javascript-runner-builder /app/task-runner-javascript /runtime/opt/runners/task-runner-javascript COPY --from=python-runner-builder /app/task-runner-python /runtime/opt/runners/task-runner-python # Copy launcher COPY --from=launcher-downloader /launcher-bin/* /runtime/usr/local/bin/ # Copy configuration COPY docker/images/runners/n8n-task-runners.json /runtime/etc/n8n-task-runners.json # Create necessary directories with proper permissions RUN mkdir -p /runtime/home/runner && \ chmod 755 /runtime/home/runner && \ chmod +x /runtime/usr/local/bin/* # ============================================================================== # STAGE 6: Distroless Runtime # ============================================================================== # Uses Google's distroless/cc-debian12 which provides: # - glibc, libgcc, libstdc++ # - CA certificates # - Timezone data # - nonroot user (UID 65532) # - NO shell, NO package manager, NO system utilities # ============================================================================== FROM gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian12:latest AS runtime ARG N8N_VERSION=snapshot ARG N8N_RELEASE_TYPE=dev ENV NODE_ENV=production \ N8N_RELEASE_TYPE=${N8N_RELEASE_TYPE} \ HOME=/home/runner # Copy everything from the prepared runtime filesystem COPY --from=runtime-prep --chown=root:root /runtime/ / WORKDIR /home/runner # Switch to nonroot user (UID 65532) USER 65532:65532 EXPOSE 5680/tcp ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/task-runner-launcher"] CMD ["javascript", "python"] LABEL org.opencontainers.image.title="n8n task runners (distroless)" \ org.opencontainers.image.description="Distroless sidecar image providing n8n task runners for JavaScript and Python code execution" \ org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n" \ org.opencontainers.image.url="https://n8n.io" \ org.opencontainers.image.version="${N8N_VERSION}"