[Feature Request] Allow GitHub apps to be created privately across multiple orgs in an Enterprise

[jahredhope]

Currently to create a GitHub App across multiple orgs you need to make the GitHub App public or duplicate the App.

For Enterprise Cloud users that have multiple orgs this means exposing internal behaviours (the names and descriptions of GitHub apps) publicly.

Is it on the roadmap to allow GitHub Apps a 3rd visibility option, between Private and Public? One that would allow users make a GitHub App private across an Enterprise, or an explicit list of orgs?

[jorsmatthys]

Hello, we also want this feature at our enterprise.

Currently we have apps that we list as public, so that we can install them on multiple (in our case 8) organizations.
There are other settings at the enterprise level that prevent the public URL of our apps to be visible to people outside of the organization, but this still feels like a hack.
It feels like being able to mark GitHub Apps as "internal" would be a logical addition.

[fblacuttgottret-godaddy]

+1

We need this and I would expect this functionality to be part of the enterprise feature set.

[xino12]

+1

[nuugen]

+1

[HarshitNagar]

There are other settings at the enterprise level that prevent the public URL of our apps to be visible to people outside of the organization

@jorsmatthys what are these settings ? Do they also prevent access to the public URL or just hide it ?

[tyleris-irish]

+1, surprised this isn't a thing. My current plan is to create the same app across 5 orgs under our Enterprise Cloud, but this will be an unnecessary pain because I'm dealing with 5 different private keys.

[lavoiesl]

This seems to be a duplicate of https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/24549

[jahredhope]

I don't think so.

That issue appears to be about whether you can have an app's tokens access two repositories across organisations at once.

This issue is about the app itself being private or public, i.e. whether public users can see the app. Where currently, you need to make an app public to install it on multiple organisations within an enterprise.