Cloud migration made easy: introducing GitHub Enterprise Importer

GitHub has introduced GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEI), a self-serve tool designed to facilitate seamless migrations to GitHub Enterprise Cloud, allowing teams to transfer code, history, and collaboration context such as pull requests and comments. This tool supports migrations from platforms like GitHub Enterprise Server, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Data Center, and Bitbucket Server, and is also available for existing GitHub.com customers to adopt Enterprise Managed Users. GEI has been utilized by over 2,000 customers for migrating more than 400,000 repositories, with an average repository migration time of 70 seconds. To aid in planning migrations, GitHub provides documentation and expert services for complex transitions, emphasizing that consolidating to a single source code management tool can enhance developer productivity and security. Additionally, GitHub Actions Importer supports the migration of CI/CD pipelines from platforms such as CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and now Atlassian’s Bamboo Server and Data Center, with a public beta available for the latter. With Atlassian ending support for Bitbucket Server, GitHub sees this as an opportune moment for organizations to transition.