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Getting started with data residency for GitHub Enterprise Cloud Get started Set up your enterprise on {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %} by onboarding users, enabling billing, and migrating data.
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When you adopt {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency %}, you can choose where your company's code and data are stored.

In this guide, you will:

  • Start a trial to create an enterprise account with {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_short %} and a dedicated domain on {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %}
  • Add users by configuring authentication and provisioning with an identity management system
  • Learn about available features, including features that work differently or require additional configuration compared to {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}
  • Set up billing for your enterprise
  • Optionally, migrate data from another platform

After this initial setup, you'll be able to create organizations and repositories, collaborate on code, configure policies, and more.

Prerequisites

  • If you intend to pay with a Microsoft Azure subscription, you must have admin access to the Azure portal or work with someone to configure an admin consent workflow. For a full list of prerequisites, see AUTOTITLE.

  • {% data reusables.data-residency.data-resident-enterprises-network-access %}

1. Sign up for a trial

To get started with {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_short %}, you will sign up for a trial. The trial:

  • Lasts for {% data reusables.enterprise.ghec-trial-length %} days
  • Includes access to most {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} features, though not the features listed in Features not included in the trial
  • Allows you to create up to three new organizations

Set up a trial of {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %} {% octicon "link-external" height:16 aria-label="link-external" %}

  1. Visit the trial page by clicking the link above.

  2. Select Get started with managed users.

  3. Under "Data hosting", use the dropdown menu to select your region for {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_short %}.

  4. Complete the signup form. Pay close attention to the following fields:

    • Subdomain: This will appear in your enterprise's dedicated domain. For example: {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_example_domain %}.
    • Identity Provider: {% data variables.product.github %} partners with certain identity providers to provide a "paved-path" experience. Check whether your identity provider is a partner and ensure you understand the requirements for other systems. See AUTOTITLE.
    • Admin work email: This is where you will receive the invitation to sign in and configure the enterprise for the first time.
  5. Click Create enterprise.

Your enterprise can take a few hours to be provisioned. When it's ready, you'll receive a welcome email and an invitation to reset your password, delivered to the "Admin work email" address.

2. Add users to your enterprise

Enterprises on {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %} use {% data variables.product.prodname_emus %}. To create user accounts and grant access to your new enterprise on {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %}, you must configure authentication and SCIM provisioning. See AUTOTITLE.

Sign in as the setup user

After we create your enterprise, you will receive an email inviting you to choose a password for the setup user, which is used to configure authentication and provisioning. The username is a randomly generated shortcode, suffixed with _admin.

Using an incognito or private browsing window:

  1. Set the user's password.

  2. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA), and save the user's recovery codes. See AUTOTITLE.

    Note

    If 2FA isn't enabled, you will need to enter your enterprise's single sign-on (SSO) recovery code each time you sign in as the setup user. You can download these codes once SSO is enabled.

{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.emu-recommend-password-manager %}

{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.emu-password-reset-session %}

Create a {% data variables.product.pat_generic %}

{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.emu-create-a-pat %}

Configure authentication

{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.emu-configure-authentication %}

Configure provisioning

{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.emu-configure-provisioning %}

Manage organization membership

{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.emu-manage-org-membership %}

3. Learn about {% data variables.product.github %}'s features

When you have completed the initial setup of your enterprise, you and your enterprise's members can start using {% data variables.product.github %}'s features.

{% data reusables.data-residency.data-resident-enterprise-feature-availability %} Some features work differently or require additional configuration compared to the equivalent feature on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}. See AUTOTITLE.

4. Purchase {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %}

You can purchase {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} at any time during the trial. To do so, click the Activate enterprise button displayed on your enterprise account.

To pay for licenses and services, you can use a credit card, PayPal, or a Microsoft Azure subscription.

  • To add a credit card or PayPal details, see AUTOTITLE.
  • To link an Azure subscription, see AUTOTITLE.

5. Migrate data

To migrate existing data to your new enterprise on {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %}, you can use {% data variables.product.company_short %}'s migration tools.

Optionally, you can migrate data to {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %} during your trial. However, migrated organizations will count towards the limit of three new organizations during the trial.

  • If you're migrating from {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}, {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_server %}, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket Server, you can migrate source code history and metadata with {% data variables.product.prodname_importer_proper_name %}. See AUTOTITLE.
  • If you're migrating from a different platform, see AUTOTITLE.

Example script for {% data variables.product.prodname_importer_proper_name %}

The following script demonstrates the use of {% data variables.product.prodname_importer_proper_name %} for migration of an individual source repository from {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %} to a target repository on {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %}. The --target-api-url parameter sets your enterprise on {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %} as the destination of the migration.

You can use the environment variable definitions in the script as an example to create additional commands that migrate data using {% data variables.product.prodname_importer_proper_name %}.

In the following script, replace the following placeholder text with actual values.

Placeholder Description
TARGET-TOKEN {% data variables.product.pat_generic_caps %} (PAT) for accessing the target enterprise on {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %}
SOURCE-TOKEN PAT for accessing the source resources on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}
TARGET-GHE-API-URL The URL for accessing API endpoints for your enterprise. For example, if your enterprise's subdomain is octocorp, this value must be https://api.octocorp.ghe.com.
SOURCE-GH-ORGANIZATION-NAME The name of the source organization on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}.
SOURCE-GH-REPOSITORY-NAME The name of the source repository on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %}.
TARGET-GHE-ORGANIZATION-NAME The name of the target organization on {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %}.
TARGET-GHE-REPOSITORY-NAME The name of the target repository on {% data variables.enterprise.data_residency_site %}.
#!/bin/sh

export GH_PAT="TARGET-TOKEN"
export GH_SOURCE_PAT="SOURCE-TOKEN"
export TARGET_API_URL="TARGET-GHE-API-URL"
export GITHUB_SOURCE_ORG="SOURCE-GH-ORGANIZATION-NAME"
export SOURCE_REPO="SOURCE-GH-REPOSITORY-NAME"
export GITHUB_TARGET_ORG="TARGET-GHE-ORGANIZATION-NAME"
export TARGET_REPO="TARGET-GHE-REPOSITORY-NAME"

gh gei migrate-repo --target-api-url $TARGET_API_URL --github-source-org $GITHUB_SOURCE_ORG --source-repo $SOURCE_REPO --github-target-org $GITHUB_TARGET_ORG --target-repo $TARGET_REPO --verbose

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