GitHub App registration

[martinm82]

Prerequisites:

• Is the functionality available in the GitHub UI? If so, please provide a link to information about the feature.

Yes, once an app is installed in the organization you can configure it and "install" it on specific repositories.

• Is the functionality available through the GitHub API? If the functionality is available, please provide links to the API documentation (https://developer.github.com/v3/) as well as the Octokit documentation (https://octokit.github.io/). Yes, https://docs.github.com/en/rest/apps/installations#add-a-repository-to-an-app-installation

• If the functionality is not yet available in the API, it would be helpful if you contacted support (https://support.github.com/) or posted in the Community Forum (https://github.community/). Please include a link to the forum post if you create one or a copy of the response from support.

New Feature

Within an organization, teams usually create GitHub Apps for their CI/CD workflows. These apps need to be transferred to the organization owners. Once this is done, installing the app onto specific repositories can only be done by organization owners.

It would be desired if teams could request the "installation" of the apps by themselves through IaC, in this case safe-settings configurations.

This is for example implemented in the Terraform GitHub Provider: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/integrations/github/latest/docs/resources/app_installation_repository

[martinm82]

I have been looking at the authentication part and currently GitHub App authentication is not supported. So the Probot app would need to authenticate using an access token. Would that be actually feasible?

[martinmigasiewicz-tomtom]

@decyjphr have you thought about this as a use case for safe-settings? WDYT about it? Is this achievable? I probably could spend some time to look into it.

[decyjphr]

Sorry, @martinm82 I haven't looked at it. But I will look at this today and ask others who would be more knowledgeable.

[AndreyNautilus]

Sorry for reminding @decyjphr , but is there any progress?