Running n8n on Azure to power a AI chat agent

I wanted a tiny, inexpensive backend to experiment with a AI chat agent on my blog. No Kubernetes, no managed databases, no monthly surprises. In this post I’ll show exactly how I stood up n8n on Azure Container Apps using SQLite and an Azure Files mount so everything persists, and scales to zero when idle. This is the infrastructure piece. In my next post I’ll walk through how I built the AI chat agent itself and wired the blog UI to n8n.