
Accelerate DevOps with GitHub
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GitHub has many different licenses and hosting options. It is important to understand them to make the right choice for your enterprise.
GitHub (https://github.com) is hosted in data centers in the United States. You can sign up on GitHub for free and you'll get unlimited private and public repositories for free. Many of the features in GitHub are free for open source projects but not for private repositories.
For enterprises, you have different options to host GitHub (see Figure 20.1):
Figure 20.1 – Hosting options for GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) is a SaaS offering from GitHub and is completely hosted by GitHub in their cloud infrastructure in the United States. You can apply additional security and support single sign-on for your users. GHEC allows you to host private and public repositories so that you can host open source projects in the context...