Sharing workflows, secrets, and runners with your organization

Overview

If you need to share workflows and other GitHub Actions features with your team, then consider collaborating within a GitHub organization. An organization allows you to centrally store and manage secrets, artifacts, and self-hosted runners. You can also create starter workflows in the .github repository and share them with other users in your organization.

Sharing workflows

Your organization can share workflows by reusing the workflows exactly or by creating starter workflows that provide templates for new workflows.

Using starter workflows

Los flujos de trabajo iniciales permiten que toda persona en tu organización que tenga permiso para crear flujos de trabajo lo haga de forma más fácil y rápida. Cuando creas un flujo de trabajo nuevo, puedes elegir un flujo de trabajo inicial y algo o todo el trabajo de escribir dicho flujo de trabajo se hará automáticamente. Puedes utilizar flujos de trabajo iniciales como un primer paso para crear un flujo de trabajo personalizado o utilizarlos tal cual. Esto no solo ahorra tiempo, sino que promueve la consistencia y las mejores prácticas a lo largo de tu organización. For more information, see "Creating starter workflows for your organization."

Sharing secrets within an organization

You can centrally manage your secrets within an organization, and then make them available to selected repositories. This also means that you can update a secret in one location, and have the change apply to all repository workflows that use the secret.

When creating a secret in an organization, you can use a policy to limit which repositories can access that secret. For example, you can grant access to all repositories, or limit access to only private repositories or a specified list of repositories.

Para crear secretos en el nivel de la organización, debe tener acceso admin.

1. En your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, vaya hasta la página principal de la organización.

2. Debajo del nombre de la organización, haga clic en Settings.

3. In the left sidebar, click Secrets.

4. Click New secret.

5. Type a name for your secret in the Name input box.

6. Enter the Value for your secret.

7. From the Repository access dropdown list, choose an access policy.

8. Click Add secret.

Share self-hosted runners within an organization

Organization admins can add their self-hosted runners to groups, and then create policies that control which repositories can access the group.

For more information, see "Managing access to self-hosted runners using groups."

Next steps

To continue learning about GitHub Actions, see "Creating starter workflows for your organization."