About GitHub Enterprise Server

关于 GitHub Enterprise Server

GitHub Enterprise Server is a self-hosted platform for software development within your enterprise. Your team can use GitHub Enterprise Server to build and ship software using Git version control, powerful APIs, productivity and collaboration tools, and integrations. Developers familiar with GitHub.com can onboard and contribute seamlessly using familiar features and workflows.

GitHub Enterprise Server runs on your infrastructure and is governed by access and security controls that you define, such as firewalls, network policies, IAM, monitoring, and VPNs. GitHub Enterprise Server is suitable for use by enterprises that are subject to regulatory compliance, which helps to avoid issues that arise from software development platforms in the public cloud.

GitHub distributes GitHub Enterprise Server as a self-contained virtual appliance. After you provision a virtual machine and install the appliance, the instance runs a Linux operating system with a custom application stack. For more information, see "System overview."

You can choose to deploy GitHub Enterprise Server on premises, or to a supported cloud environment.

Supported environments for deployment

You can deploy GitHub Enterprise Server to a virtualization hypervisor within your on-premises datacenter, or to a public cloud service.

GitHub supports the following virtualization hypervisors for on-premises deployment.

Microsoft Hyper-V
OpenStack KVM
VMware ESXi

GitHub supports the following services for cloud deployment.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Microsoft Azure

更多信息请参阅“设置 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例”。

About releases and upgrades

GitHub Enterprise Server is constantly improving, with new functionality and bug fixes introduced through feature and patch releases. You are responsible for upgrades to your instance. For more information, see "GitHub Enterprise Server releases."

About administration

You can configure and monitor GitHub Enterprise Server via browser, administrative SSH access, and REST or GraphQL APIs. GitHub has found that people with Linux administration experience are more successful with the deployment and maintainance of GitHub Enterprise Server.

You can give certain employees administrative access to GitHub Enterprise Server, so they can set up external authentication, configure the instance to meet developer needs, and monitor the instance's activity and performance. To ensure compliance with business rules or regulatory restrictions, administrators can configure policies that control how people use 您的 GitHub Enterprise Server 实例. 更多信息请参阅以下文� 。

About optional features

You can configure optional features for GitHub Enterprise Server that improve the software development lifecycle for your enterprise.

功能	描述	更多信息
GitHub Actions	Automate CI/CD and development workflows	"关于企业的 GitHub Actions"
GitHub Connect	Benefit from the power of GitHub.com in limited ways	"关于 GitHub Connect"
GitHub Advanced Security	Improve code security and quality	"关于 GitHub Advanced Security"
GitHub Packages	Host software packages for your enterprise	"Introduction to GitHub Packages"

About deployment topologies

By default, GitHub Enterprise Server runs as a standalone instance. You can increase the reliability and performance of GitHub Enterprise Server by using a different topology for your deployment.

To mitigate the impact of system or network failures, you can deploy a passive replica instance. During an outage that affects your primary instance, you can manually fail over to the replica instance. 更多信息请参阅“关于高可用性配置”。
You can configure multiple active replicas to improve performance for developers who are geographically distant from your primary instance. 更多信息请参阅“关于 Geo-replication”。
Some enterprises with tens of thousands of developers may benefit from a cluster configuration that scales horizontally instead of vertically. 更多信息请参阅“关于集群。”

About backups and disaster recovery

To safeguard against data loss or service disruptions for your developers, GitHub strongly recommends that you establish a plan for disaster recovery. You can back up your instance's configuration and user data by deploying and configuring a Linux or Unix host system with GitHub Enterprise Server 备份实用程序. 更多信息请参阅“在设备上配置备份”。

Additionally, you can configure a passive replica instance to fail over to in the event of a system or network failure. For more information, see "About deployment."

About documentation

Documentation for both administrators and users of GitHub Enterprise Server is available on this site, GitHub Docs.

Different versions of GitHub Enterprise Server are reflected separately in the documentation on GitHub Docs. 更多信息请参阅“关于 GitHub Docs 的版本”。

Trying GitHub Enterprise Server

You can sign up for a free, 45-day trial of GitHub Enterprise Server. 更多信息请参阅“设置 GitHub Enterprise Server 的试用”。