Node-RED — system requirements

Flow-based visual programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs, and online services. · website · repository

No official figure published for: minimum RAM, recommended RAM, minimum CPU cores, recommended CPU cores

The official Docker/getting-started docs cover ports, volumes, and image variants but state no RAM, CPU, or disk figures; the only memory-related guidance is a NODE_OPTIONS example tuning Node.js's --max_old_space_size, not a stated requirement.

We publish nothing we can't source. Evidence of the gap.

External services

No required external services (source)

Container

Image: nodered/node-red · compressed size (amd64): 218 MB · architectures: amd64, arm64 · source, retrieved 2026-08-12

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