At a previous employer, we used Terraform to manage GitHub teams/repos/permissions.
It worked ... okay. Might be worth a try for you?
It worked ... okay. Might be worth a try for you?
The principle is broadly the same as other Terraform workflows: import existing config and update it when you need to. You can manage repo permissions, people and teams, all centrally and in code. Super useful for tracking changes (the GH audit logs are a bit lacking in my experience) and identifying discrepancies between the expected and actual configurations.
[1] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/integrations/github/...
One big downside to this approach is Github teams often don't line up 1-to-1 with an organization's reporting structure, so you don't really ever get away from needing to manually manage user-team memberships, but it does remove the need to onboard/offboard users manually.