A faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise

Today, we’re releasing an all-new GitHub Enterprise designed to make it even easier for developers and businesses around the world to use GitHub at work.

Now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Since GitHub Enterprise launched in 2011, AWS’s popularity has grown. Many companies want to host code in their AWS-powered cloud and with good reason. Using AWS reduces hardware costs, provides immediate access to a highly scalable infrastructure, and addresses a wide variety of compliance standards, from healthcare’s HIPAA standards to government’s FedRAMP. And now you can run GitHub Enterprise on AWS too! We like to think it feels a little bit like this:

Infrastructure improvements, high availability, & backups

We’ve rewritten the infrastructure behind GitHub Enterprise, improving stability and redundancy regardless of how you choose to deploy it. Some highlights:

• GitHub Enterprise now utilizes Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, taking advantage of long-term updates and security fixes for the base components provided by Ubuntu.
• Online backup utilities give you a number of advanced capabilities for backing up and restoring your data. With these utilities your appliance doesn’t need to be put in maintenance mode for the duration of the backup run, meaning there’s no downtime for your development team.
• Achieving redundancy with GitHub Enterprise is much easier. With replication mode enabled, you can configure a second, identical instance (failover with warm standby) to jump into action should anything happen to your primary instance.

SAML support & security audit log

With our improved organization audit log, admins can now see a running list of events as they’re generated across each organization and search for specific activities performed by users. This data provides your company with better security insights and gives you the ability to audit account, team, and repository access over time as needed.

We’ve also added support for SAML, including OneLogin, PingIdentity, Okta, and Shibboleth. Single sign-on with these identity providers allows you to manage your organization’s users from one place or manage app access for groups of users at a time, rather than individually.

…and more!

This release also includes a number of features to help your company build and ship high-quality software, including:

• Split diffs
• Comment reply by email
• A better branches page
• The pull request revert button
• Locking conversations
• Issue search and filtering
• New labels and milestones pages
• Issue assignment notifications
• Deployment status on pull requests
• PSD Rendering
• GitHub Pages upgrade to Jekyll 2.2.0

To see a full list of features, check out the release notes for GitHub Enterprise 2.0.0.

Give GitHub Enterprise a whirl

If you’re an existing GitHub Enterprise customer, you can download the latest release from the Enterprise website. If you want to give GitHub Enterprise a try, you can start a 45-day free trial on AWS or VMware.

Come visit us at AWS re:Invent

We’ll be demoing the all-new GitHub Enterprise this week at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. Stop by booth #1229 to say hi, check out this release in action, and grab some stickers and other great stuff. If you’re attending re:Invent and would like a more in depth look at how this release of GitHub Enterprise might help your company, sign up for a meeting with our GitHub Enterprise sales team.

Written by

Matt Colyer

@mcolyer