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Node-RED in one click.

Node-RED is a flow-based visual programming for automation you can run on your own machine. Launch it in Even Stacks in one click, serve it over trusted HTTPS, and let your AI agents operate it.

What is Node-RED?

Node-RED is a flow-based visual programming tool built on Node.js for wiring together devices, APIs, and services. Flows are built in a browser-based editor and deployed to the runtime in one click.

CategoryAutomation
Default port1880
Container imagenodered/node-red:latest
Official sitenodered.org

Run Node-RED in Even

Even Stacks launches Node-RED as a managed container on your own machine. No compose files, no manual setup.

  1. Open the Even Stacks panel in Even. The container engine starts on demand.
  2. Find Node-RED in the one-click services and click Launch.
  3. Even pulls the image, starts it on port 1880, and serves it over trusted HTTPS at https://node-red.localhost.

Drive Node-RED with your AI agents

Even ships an MCP, so any agent you run inside Even (Claude Code, Codex, and more) can operate Node-RED directly, at both the UI level and the container level.

Through the Even MCP an agent can open the editor in Even's browser and build a workflow step by step. It runs commands inside the container, reads its logs, and for web apps opens and clicks through the interface in Even's own browser pane. Ask once, for example "set up Node-RED and get it ready", and the agent handles it end to end.

How agents reach it: Open http://localhost:1880, drag nodes onto the canvas to build automation flows, and click Deploy to activate them. Install extra nodes via Manage Palette in the menu or by running npm install inside the /data/node_modules path with docker exec. Flows and credentials are persisted in the /data volume.

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