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Azure Active Directory to GitHub integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Azure Active Directory and GitHub in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Azure Active Directory and GitHub

Keep the users, groups, and profile details that GitHub and Azure Active Directory share consistent in real time, so who can work in GitHub always matches who your directory in Azure Active Directory says belongs there.

Azure Active Directory is where a company records who its people are: their accounts, the groups and roles they hold, and the attributes attached to each one. GitHub is where a slice of those same people do their work, as agents, members, or seats, and every one of them needs a matching account with the right access. When a directory and a productivity tool are maintained by hand, someone added, moved, or offboarded in one becomes a stale entry in the other within the hour.

Stacksync syncs Labels and Milestones, Repositories, Issues, Pull Requests in GitHub with Groups, Group memberships, Applications, Service principals in Azure Active Directory bi-directionally and in real time. A user created, renamed, moved between groups, or deactivated in either system updates the matching record in the other within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of CSV uploads and nightly IT batch jobs.

That matters most at the edges of employment. When both systems agree on who has an account, which groups they belong to, and whether they are still active, granting access on day one and revoking it on the last day stops being a manual checklist that trails the directory.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync organization and team membership with an identity or HR system to automate access reviews and offboarding.
  • 02 Create GitHub issues automatically from records written elsewhere, such as bug reports logged in a CRM case object.
  • 03 Mirror Applications and Service principals into a database or CMDB to track app ownership and credential expiry.
  • 04 Reconcile Entra ID Users and assignedLicenses with an ITSM or finance database to audit license allocation and reclaim unused seats.

Common sync patterns

Mirror group and role membership

Moving a user between groups or roles in Azure Active Directory updates their team, permission set, or seat in GitHub, so what someone can do reflects where they sit in the directory.

One record per person

People matched across both systems on email or an external ID stay linked, so every account and action in GitHub ties back to the right identity in Azure Active Directory.

Provision access when someone joins

A user added to Azure Active Directory, or moved into a group inside it, gets the matching account or membership created in GitHub, so a new hire can start working without a separate setup ticket.

What you can sync between Azure Active Directory and GitHub

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Azure Active Directory objects GitHub objects How this pairing syncs
Users /users in Microsoft Graph; synced two-way — profile attributes, accountEnabled, and assignedLicenses are read out while provisioning writes (create, update, disable, delete) are pushed back. Users Author and assignee identities matched to internal directories. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Applications App registrations under /applications; usually read into a database or CMDB for app ownership and credential-expiry tracking. Workflow runs (Actions) CI results synced into incident and reporting systems. Applications is specific to Azure Active Directory and Workflow runs (Actions) to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Service principals /servicePrincipals (enterprise apps) plus appRoleAssignments; read for app inventory and access-posture reporting. Organizations and Teams Membership data synced with identity systems and HR directories for access reviews. Service principals is specific to Azure Active Directory and Organizations and Teams to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Directory roles /directoryRoles and roleManagement assignments; read for privileged-access reviews, with role-assignment writes where the granted scopes permit. Labels and Milestones Classification fields mapped to statuses and sprints in external trackers. Directory roles is specific to Azure Active Directory and Labels and Milestones to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Devices /devices registered or joined to the tenant; typically read-only into asset and security databases. Repositories Top-level containers whose metadata and settings syncs read to scope other objects. Devices is specific to Azure Active Directory and Repositories to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Groups /groups covering security and Microsoft 365 groups; created, updated, and deleted through Graph, and read into warehouses for entitlement reporting. Issues Synced two-way with project trackers and support tools, including labels and assignees. Groups is specific to Azure Active Directory and Issues to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Azure Active Directory and GitHub

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Azure Active Directory GitHub Sub-second propagation

DetectionAzure Active Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to GitHub through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

GitHub Azure Active Directory Sub-second propagation

DetectionGitHub notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks with a broad event catalog covering issues, pull requests, pushes, and releases.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Azure Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Azure Active Directory: Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header.
  • GitHub: Authenticated REST requests are limited to 5,000 per hour per user; GitHub Apps scale limits per installation.
What ships with Azure Active Directory ⇄ GitHub

Connect Azure Active Directory and GitHub for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Azure Active Directory–GitHub connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Azure Active Directory or GitHub instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure Active Directory or GitHub data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Azure Active Directory or GitHub record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Azure Active Directory ⇄ GitHub sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Azure Active Directory and GitHub.

How the Azure Active Directory and GitHub connectors work

Azure Active Directory

Integration surface
Microsoft Graph REST API (v1.0)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform using an Entra ID app registration; app-only (client credentials) or delegated flows, with directory scopes such as User.ReadWrite.All and Group.ReadWrite.All requiring tenant admin consent
Change detection
Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification webhook subscriptions for near-real-time push
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header

GitHub

Integration surface
REST API and GraphQL API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0, fine-grained personal access tokens, or GitHub App installation tokens
Change detection
Webhooks with a broad event catalog covering issues, pull requests, pushes, and releases; polling for backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Authenticated REST requests are limited to 5,000 per hour per user; GitHub Apps scale limits per installation.
How it works

How to connect Azure Active Directory to GitHub — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Azure Active Directory and GitHub with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Azure Active Directory connected
    GitHub connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Azure Active Directory and GitHub objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Azure Active Directory ⇄ GitHub
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Azure Active Directory GitHub
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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