Task 01 - Enable GitHub Enterprise

Introduction

Before you can take advantage of security features of GitHub Advanced Security, you will need a GitHub organization tied to GitHub Enterprise. You can enable a 30 day trial that will give you access to these features for the purposes of this training lab.

Description

During this task you will set up GitHub Enterprise for your organization. In a later exercise you will configure GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS).

Success Criteria

You have configured your GitHub Enterprise account and connected it with your GitHub organization

Learning Resources

Key Tasks

Before you setup GitHub Enterprise, choose the GitHub account you would like to connect to GitHub Enterprise and login to that account.

02: Select or create an organization

You will need an organization to associate your GitHub Enterprise account with.

Review your organizations and determine which organization you would like to associate, otherwise, create a new organization for this lab.

Expand this section for detailed steps

From your GitHub account select Manage Organizations.
If you do not see an organization you’d like to associate with a GitHub Enterprise account, select New organization.
Choose the Free plan for the organization plan. Select Create a free organization.
Fill out the form. Consider using the name Zava Labs <your-github-account-name> to ensure it is unique. Click Next.
If you don’t plan to add other members, select Complete setup.

03: Enable GitHub Enterprise

If you will not be using an organization in your GitHub account that already has GitHub Enterprise, you should choose an organization for which you have authority to add GitHub Enterprise.

NOTE You will be asked to provide billing information for the GitHub Enterprise 30 day trial during this lab, however, you will be able to remove this setup during the final resource cleanup exercise.