Overview

GitHub Enterprise Server is the center of software development for your organization. In this highly tailored session, GitHub’s implementation experts will equip your team with the knowledge they need to deploy and configure your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, providing long-term security and reliability.

Target Audience

• GitHub Enterprise Server Admins
• DevOps Engineers
• Infrastructure Engineers

Key Features and Benefits

Get up and running quickly, and stay up, with expert guidance on:

• Best practices around high availability and disaster recovery (backup-utils)
• Ensuring authentication and security needs are met
• Selecting appropriate integrations
• Essential practices that lead to team success

Delivery Methods

Remote

• Unit of Delivery: Class

Syllabus

In this engagement, a GitHub professional will guide you through the process of deploying and configuring your GitHub Enterprise environment. This includes:

• Assessing the hosting environment
• Configuring security policies (LDAP, SAML, etc)
• Uploading the SSL certificate and configuring the domain
• Configuring email server settings
• Selecting security settings to fit your business environment
• Configuring high availability and backups
• Reviewing essential best practices for users and teams
• Leveraging GitHub Enterprise Pages
• Leveraging repository and organization webhooks for integrations

Note: The syllabus is reviewed periodically and may change to ensure updated content are presented.

Business Outcomes

After this engagement, your team will be able to:

• Deploy and configure your GitHub Enterprise instance
• Setup a High-Availability instance
• Setup and schedule regular backups for data recovery
• Establish the organization and teams for your company
• Manage your GitHub Enterprise instance

Prerequisites

• Provisioned hosts for primary, replica, and backup-utils for GitHub Enterprise Server
• Ensure the required ports are opened
• Obtain configuration information for authentication services (LDAP/SAML/etc.)
• A valid SSL/TLS certificate for the desired hosting domain (github.company.com)
• Email server settings for your SMTP server