Enterprise Teams is now generally available 🚀

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Enterprise Teams is now generally available on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. First announced in public preview last September, enterprise teams let enterprise admins define a group of users once at the enterprise account and assign that group to roles across every organization in the enterprise. There's no longer a need to recreate or reconcile the same team in each org.

What this unlocks

• Route pull request reviews to the same SRE or security team across 50+ orgs without maintaining 50 copies of the team.
• Grant break-glass ruleset bypass to a platform team once, and have it applied to every repository they touch.
• Let your identity provider drive enterprise team membership end-to-end, with changes automatically flowing through to org-level permissions.
• Automate team lifecycle via GitHub Apps without relying on a single admin's PAT.

What's new since public preview

You can now:

• Scale to production limits, up to 2,500 teams per enterprise and 5,000 members per team. This is validated across your enterprise's organizations.
• @mention enterprise teams in pull requests, issues, or discussions, and members get notified just like with organization teams.
• Request enterprise teams as pull request reviewers across every org they're assigned to.
• Select enterprise teams as bypass actors when you configure repository rulesets.
• Drive enterprise team membership from your identity provider (e.g., Entra ID, Okta) via SCIM for Enterprise Managed Users.
• Discover enterprise and organization teams from a unified API view, so automation tools no longer have to query separate endpoints to assemble a full team picture.
• Manage enterprise teams programmatically with GitHub Apps and fine-grained personal access tokens using the new enterprise teams permission.
• Audit every change. Team CRUD actions, membership changes, role assignments, and ruleset bypass events are all captured in your enterprise audit log.

Get started

From your enterprise account, open the People tab, select Enterprise teams in the sidebar, and click Create enterprise team.

To learn more, see Creating enterprise teams and the Enterprise Teams REST API.

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[usmonster]

Thanks for the feature and the improvements since the preview!

FYI, the Creating enterprise teams link in the announcement (both here and in the blog post) is confusing and should likely point to this page instead. The Enterprise admin docs would also be a nice link to include.

Documentation is a bit sparse in general (couldn't find the @/ent:teamname format anywhere, for example), and it took me a while to understand that Enterprise teams in CODEOWNERS is not yet supported and Enterprise team nesting still isn't possible (list of limitations).

The doc mentions:

You may need to create organization teams if the functionality you need is not covered by enterprise teams. GitHub plans to address some limitations in the near future.

(Emphasis mine.) Is the list of limitations that are planned to be addressed public somewhere? I couldn't find them on the public roadmap. Should we expect some of the listed limitations to never be addressed?

Thanks again!