You can create an enterprise account specifically for managing Copilot Business licenses, without adopting GitHub Enterprise. With this account, you will have access to enterprise-grade integrations with identity providers for authentication and provisioning, without needing to pay for GitHub Enterprise licenses. See About enterprise accounts for Copilot Business.
1. Create an enterprise account
Important
If you're purchasing Copilot Business through GitHub's sales team, your enterprise account will be created for you. Skip to step 2.
You need to create an enterprise account, and the way to do that is to start a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud.
Set up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Don’t create any organizations during setup. Adding users to organizations assigns them GitHub Enterprise licenses, while adding users directly to the enterprise keeps your setup limited to Copilot Business.
2. Add users to your enterprise
Once you have an enterprise account, add the people who will receive Copilot Business licenses. How you add users depends on your enterprise type.
Enterprise with personal accounts
Invite users directly to your enterprise. For detailed steps, see Inviter directement des utilisateurs dans votre entreprise.
Enterprise with managed users
If your enterprise uses Enterprise Managed Users, you must provision user accounts from your identity provider (IdP) through SCIM. For setup and provisioning guidance, see Bien démarrer avec Enterprise Managed Users.
Provisioned users will appear automatically in your enterprise’s People list. Later, you'll assign Copilot Business licenses directly to these users or to enterprise teams synced with your IdP.
3. Create teams (optional)
You can group users to scale license assignment by creating and managing enterprise teams. If you plan to manage access in groups, create those groups now. See Création d’équipes d’entreprise.
4. Enable Copilot for the enterprise
Avant de pouvoir attribuer des licences, un propriétaire d’entreprise doit activer Copilot pour l’entreprise et sélectionner des stratégies pour certaines fonctionnalités.
- Dans le coin supérieur droit de GitHub, cliquez sur votre photo de profil.
- En fonction de votre environnement, cliquez sur Votre entreprise ou sur Vos entreprises, puis cliquez sur l'entreprise que vous souhaitez consulter.
- En haut de la page, cliquez sur Stratégies. 1. Dans la section « Stratégies », cliquez sur Copilot.
- Sous « Stratégies GitHub Copilot », cliquez sur Autorisé, puis cliquez sur Enregistrer.
- Passez en revue les stratégies pour obtenir des suggestions correspondant au code public et Copilot Chat, puis mettez à jour les menus déroulants pour activer ou désactiver les fonctionnalités en fonction des besoins.
5. Assign Copilot licenses
Next, give people access to Copilot by assigning Copilot Business licenses to users or enterprise teams directly from the enterprise level.
For detailed steps, see Accorder aux utilisateurs l’accès à GitHub Copilot dans votre entreprise.
6. Convert your trial to a paid enterprise account
To continue using Copilot Business after your trial, convert your trial to a paid enterprise account. See Configuration d’un essai de GitHub Enterprise Cloud.
Next steps
After setting up Copilot Business for your enterprise, you can help your developers start using Copilot and measure its impact across your organization. See Favoriser l’adoption de GitHub Copilot dans votre entreprise.
If you ever want to access the full range of GitHub features in the future, you can create organizations and add users to them.