Organizations

Learn organization management.

What are GitHub Organizations?

A GitHub Organization allows multiple people to manage projects under a shared structure. Organizations are used to centrally manage repositories, members, and teams.

Organization
├── Team: frontend
├── Team: backend
└── Repositories

Organization owners can manage member roles and repository access permissions.

Teams and members

Teams within an organization group members according to specific responsibilities. For example, the frontend team can access web interface repositories while the backend team can access server repositories.

GET /orgs/{org}/teams
GET /orgs/{org}/members

You can list teams and organization members through the REST API. Your token must have permission to access the relevant organization data.

Exercise List organization teams

Send a GET request to list the teams of the my-company organization. Specify the JSON response type expected by the GitHub API in the request header. Also print the HTTP response status code.

Show example solution

curl -sS -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}
" -X GET -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" https://api.github.com/orgs/my-company/teams

Test yourself

You want to organize a company's developers into teams and grant shared repository access. Which GitHub structure provides this management?
- Release
- Personal account
- Organization
- Gist
Show answer

Organization — An Organization centrally manages members and teams, allowing shared access to repositories.

Complete the organization teams endpoint

GET /orgs/{org}/teams____

Show answer

GET /orgs/{org}/teamsteams

Organization management

Organization

Shared management space
Team

Represents a specific task group
Member

User who belongs to the organization
Owner

Role with management permissions

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