GitHub is making it easier to manage all your company's accounts

GitHub has launched a brand new kind of consumer account designed to carry centralized, granular management to the platform’s enterprise customers.

Enterprise Managed Users (EMUs) are a brand new kind of consumer account for GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) prospects which might be provisioned and managed centrally with the assistance of the shopper’s present id supplier (IdP).

First introduced in personal beta final yr, EMUs are designed to give admins granular management over GitHub accounts throughout the corporate, and at present works solely with id providers from Microsoft’s AzureAD and Okta.

“Enterprises using EMUs can create user accounts for their employees via a linked IdP. Administrators are also able to manage user profile data (e.g. display name, email address, etc.) and membership to GitHub teams through their IdP,” the corporate defined.

Move to the cloud

Reporting on the announcement, VentureBeat notes that earlier than EMUs, GHEC prospects may invite exterior builders into firm teams utilizing their present particular person accounts, over which that they had little management.

With EMUs, corporations can now create consumer accounts utilizing their present IdP. From a safety perspective, EMUs give higher management to company prospects, particularly since EMU accounts can solely be used to work on repositories that belong to the corporate.

VentureBeat argues that the transfer in the direction of EMUs ties into GitHub’s bigger push to transition software program improvement in the direction of the cloud, given as it comes on the heels of the launch of its browser-based Codespaces improvement atmosphere.

Via VentureBeat