About GitHub Connect
GitHub Connect enhances GitHub Enterprise Server by allowing 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例 to benefit from the power of GitHub.com in limited ways. After you enable GitHub Connect, you can enable additional features and workflows that rely on GitHub.com, such as Dependabot 警报 for security vulnerabilities that are tracked in the GitHub Advisory Database.
GitHub Connect does not open 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例 to the public internet. None of your enterprise's private data is exposed to GitHub.com users. Instead, GitHub Connect transmits only the limited data needed for the individual features you choose to enable. Unless you enable license sync, no personal data is transmitted by GitHub Connect. For more information about what data is transmitted by GitHub Connect, see "Data transmission for GitHub Connect."
Enabling GitHub Connect will not allow GitHub.com users to make changes to GitHub Enterprise Server.
To enable GitHub Connect, you configure a connection between 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例 and an organization or enterprise account on GitHub.com that uses GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see "Managing GitHub Connect."
After enabling GitHub Connect, you will be able to enable features such as automatic user license sync and Dependabot 警报. For more information about all of the features available, see "GitHub Connect features."
GitHub Connect features
After you configure the connection between 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例 and GitHub Enterprise Cloud, you can enable individual features of GitHub Connect for your enterprise.
| Feature | Description | More information |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic user license sync | Manage license usage across your GitHub Enterprise deployments by automatically syncing user licenses from 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例 to GitHub Enterprise Cloud. | "Enabling automatic user license sync for your enterprise" |
| Dependabot | Allow users to find and fix vulnerabilities in code dependencies. | "Enabling Dependabot for your enterprise" |
| GitHub.com actions | Allow users to use actions from GitHub.com in workflow files. | "Enabling automatic access to GitHub.com actions using GitHub Connect" |
| Unified search | Allow users to include repositories on GitHub.com in their search results when searching from 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例. | "Enabling 统一搜索 for your enterprise" |
| Unified contributions | Allow users to include anonymized contribution counts for their work on 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例 in their contribution graphs on GitHub.com. | "Enabling 统一贡献 for your enterprise" |
Data transmission for GitHub Connect
When you enable GitHub Connect or specific GitHub Connect features, a record on GitHub Enterprise Cloud stores the following information about the connection.
- The public key portion of your GitHub Enterprise Server license
- A hash of your GitHub Enterprise Server license
- The customer name on your GitHub Enterprise Server license
- The version of 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例
- The hostname of 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例
- The organization or enterprise account on GitHub Enterprise Cloud that's connected to 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例
- The authentication token that's used by 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例 to make requests to GitHub Enterprise Cloud
- If Transport Layer Security (TLS) is enabled and configured on 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例
- The GitHub Connect features that are enabled on 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例, and the date and time of enablement
- The dormancy threshold for your enterprise
- The number of dormant users for your enterprise
- A count of license-consuming seats, which does not include suspended users
GitHub Connect syncs the above connection data between 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例 and GitHub Enterprise Cloud weekly, from the day and approximate time that GitHub Connect was enabled.
Note: No repositories, issues, or pull requests are ever transmitted from GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub.com by GitHub Connect.
Additional data is transmitted if you enable individual features of GitHub Connect.
| Feature | Data | Which way does the data flow? | Where is the data used? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic user license sync | Each GitHub Enterprise Server user's user ID and email addresses | From GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub Enterprise Cloud | GitHub Enterprise Cloud |
| Dependabot 警报 | Vulnerability alerts | From GitHub.com to GitHub Enterprise Server | GitHub Enterprise Server |
| GitHub.com actions | Name of action, action (YAML file from GitHub Marketplace) | From GitHub.com to GitHub Enterprise Server From GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub.com | GitHub Enterprise Server |
| Unified search | Search terms, search results | From GitHub.com to GitHub Enterprise Server From GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub.com | GitHub Enterprise Server |
| Unified contributions | Contribution counts | From GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub.com | GitHub.com |
Further reading
- "Enterprise accounts" in the GraphQL API documentation