- Generating the data to create Organizations in Snyk
- Creating the organizations
- Recommendations
Before an import can begin Snyk needs to be setup with the Organizations you will populate with projects.
It is recommended to have as many Organizations in Snyk as you have in the source you are importing from. So for Github this would mean mirroring the Github organizations in Snyk. The tool provides a utility that can be used to make this simpler when using Groups & Organizations in Snyk.
This util helps generate data needed to mirror the Github.com / Github Enterprise / Gitlab / Bitbucket Server / Bitbucket Cloud organization structure in Snyk. This is an opinionated util and will assume every organization in Github.com / Github Enterprise / Gitlab / Bitbucket Server / Bitbucket Cloud should become an organization in Snyk. If this is not what you are looking for, please look at using the Organizations API directly to create the structure you need.
--source The source of the targets to be imported
(e.g. Github, Github Enterprise, Gitlab,
Bitbucket Server) [required]
--groupId Public id of the group in Snyk (available
on group settings) [required]
--sourceUrl Custom base url for the source API that can
list organizations (e.g. Github Enterprise url)
--sourceOrgPublicId Public id of the organization in Snyk that
can be used as a template to copy all
supported organization settings.
--skipEmptyOrgs Skip organizations that have no targets.
(e.g. Github Organizations that have no repos)
- set the Github.com personal access token as an environment variable:
export GITHUB_TOKEN=your_personal_access_token
- Run the command to generate organization data:
- Github.com:
snyk-api-import orgs:data --source=github --groupId=<snyk_group_id>
- Github Enterprise:
snyk-api-import orgs:data --source=github-enterprise --groupId=<snyk_group_id> -- sourceUrl=https://ghe.custom.github.com/
This will create the organization data in a file group-<snyk_group_id>-github-<com|enterprise>-orgs.json
- set the Gitlab personal access token as an environment variable:
export GITLAB_TOKEN=your_personal_access_token
- Run the command to generate organization data:
- Gitlab:
snyk-api-import orgs:data --source=gitlab --groupId=<snyk_group_id>
- Hosted Gitlab:
snyk-api-import orgs:data --source=gitlab --groupId=<snyk_group_id> -- sourceUrl=https://gitlab.custom.com
This will create the organization data in a file group-<snyk_group_id>-gitlab-orgs.json
. Both groups & sub-groups will be listed and then these will become Organizations in Snyk.
Please note that Bitbucket Server is a hosted environment and you must provide the custom URL for your Bitbucket Server instance in the command
- set the Bitbucket Server access token as an environment variable:
export BITBUCKET_SERVER_TOKEN=your_personal_access_token
- Run the command to generate organization data:
snyk-api-import orgs:data --source=bitbucket-server --groupId=<snyk_group_id> --sourceUrl=https://bitbucket-server.custom.com
This will create the organization data in a file group-<snyk_group_id>-bitbucket-server-orgs.json
Note that the URL for Bitbucket Cloud is https://bitbucket.org/
- set the Bitbucket Cloud Username and Password as an environment variables:
export BITBUCKET_CLOUD_USERNAME=your_bitbucket_cloud_username
andexport BITBUCKET_CLOUD_PASSWORD=your_bitbucket_cloud_password
- Run the command to generate organization data:
snyk-api-import orgs:data --source=bitbucket-cloud --groupId=<snyk_group_id>
This will create the organization data in a file group-<snyk_group_id>-bitbucket-cloud-orgs.json
Please note that for Azure, this step needs to be done manually Since Azure has no API call for getting the Azure Organizations, the Orgs file must be created manually for the next commands to run:
- The file should be formatted this way:
{
"orgs":[
{
"name":"THE_NAME_OF_AN_AZURE_ORG",
"groupId":"YOUR_SNYK_GROUP_ID",
"sourceOrgId":"THE_SNYK_ORG_ID_FROM_WHICH_TO_COPY_THE_SETTINGS_FROM" // **optional**
},
{
"name":"THE_NAME_OF_ANOTHER_AZURE_ORG",
"groupId":"YOUR_SNYK_GROUP_ID",
"sourceOrgId":"THE_SNYK_ORG_ID_FROM_WHICH_TO_COPY_THE_SETTINGS_FROM" // **optional**
}
]
}
- Once the file is created, you can feed it to the orgs:create command
Use the generated data file to help create the organizations via API or use the provided util.
Use the generated data to feed into Snyk Orgs API to generate the organizations within a group.
- set the
SNYK_TOKEN
environment variable - your Snyk api token - Run the command to create Orgs:
snyk-api-import orgs:create --noDuplicateNames --includeExistingOrgsInOutput --file=group-<snyk_group_id>-github-<com|enterprise>-orgs.json
- Using the
noDuplicateNames
flag (optional) will Skip creating an organization if the given name is already taken within the Group. - Using the
includeExistingOrgsInOutput
flag (optional, default is "true") will Log existing organization information as well as newly created. To set this flag as false, please use "--no-includeExistingOrgsInOutput" in the command, like so:snyk-api-import orgs:create --no-includeExistingOrgsInOutput --file=group-<snyk_group_id>-github-<com|enterprise>-orgs.json
The file format required for this looks like so:
"orgs": [
{
"groupId": "<public_snyk_group_id>",
"name": "<name_of_the_organization>",
"sourceOrgId": "<public_snyk_organization_id>"
}
]
groupId
- public id of the Snyk Group where the organization is to be createdname
- name to use when creating the organizationsourceOrgId
- optional public id of a Snyk organization to copy settings from
- have notifications disabled for emails etc to avoid receiving import notifications
- have the fix PRs and PR checks disabled until import is complete to avoid sending extra requests to SCMs (Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket etc)