# Additional nodes

You can configure additional nodes to offload stateless workloads from the primary node in your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

## Links

* [Adding nodes to a high availability configuration](/en/enterprise-server@3.22/admin/monitoring-and-managing-your-instance/additional-nodes/configuring-additional-nodes)

  Add nodes to the primary high availability (HA) datacenter. This is intended to offload CPU-intensive tasks from the primary node, allowing for horizontal scaling of the GitHub Enterprise Server instance.