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Enterprise administrators guides

Learn how to increase developer productivity and code quality with GitHub Enterprise Server.

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Upgrade your instance

Test upgrades in staging, notify users of maintenance, and upgrade your instance for the latest features and security updates.

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Increase the fault tolerance of your instance

Back up your developers' code and configure high availability (HA) to ensure the reliability of GitHub Enterprise Server in your environment.

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Improve the security of your instance

Review network configuration and security features, and harden the instance running GitHub Enterprise Server to protect your enterprise's data.

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Configure GitHub Actions

Allow your developers to create, automate, customize, and execute powerful software development workflows for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance with GitHub Actions.

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Configure GitHub Advanced Security

Improve the quality and security of your developers' code with GitHub Advanced Security.

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All Enterprise administrators guides

Allowing built-in authentication for users outside your identity provider

How-to guide

You can configure built-in authentication to authenticate users who don't have access to your identity provider that uses LDAP, SAML, or CAS.

AccountsAuthenticationEnterpriseIdentity

Changing authentication methods

Overview

You can change the way GitHub Enterprise Server authenticates with your existing accounts at any time.

AccountsAuthenticationEnterpriseIdentity

Using CAS

How-to guide

CAS is a single sign-on (SSO) protocol for multiple web applications. A CAS user account does not take up a user license until the user signs in.

AccountsAuthenticationEnterpriseIdentitySSO

Using LDAP

How-to guide

LDAP lets you authenticate GitHub Enterprise Server against your existing accounts and centrally manage repository access. LDAP is a popular application protocol for accessing and maintaining directory information services, and is one of the most common protocols used to integrate third-party software with large company user directories.

AccountsAuthenticationEnterpriseIdentity

Using SAML

How-to guide

SAML is an XML-based standard for authentication and authorization. GitHub Enterprise Server can act as a service provider (SP) with your internal SAML identity provider (IdP).

AccountsAuthenticationEnterpriseIdentitySSO

Accessing the administrative shell (SSH)

How-to guide

SSH access allows you to run the GitHub Enterprise Server command line utilities to troubleshoot, run backups, and configure replication.

EnterpriseFundamentalsSSH

Accessing the management console

How-to guide

You can use the Management Console to manage virtual appliance settings such as the domain, authentication, and SSL.

EnterpriseFundamentals

Configuring a hostname

How-to guide

We recommend setting a hostname for your appliance instead of using a hard-coded IP address.

EnterpriseFundamentalsInfrastructure

Configuring backups on your appliance

How-to guide

As part of a disaster recovery plan, you can protect production data on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance by configuring automated backups.

BackupsEnterpriseFundamentalsInfrastructure

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