When will GitHub Enterprise Server support installation on Kubernetes (EKS)?

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Question

Is there a plan or timeline for supporting GitHub Enterprise Server installation on Kubernetes, such as Amazon EKS?

Background

We currently run GitHub Enterprise Server as a standalone EC2 instance on AWS. Most of our platform workloads already run on EKS, and we manage them with GitOps (Helm charts and Argo CD).

Running GHES as a single appliance VM leaves it outside that operating model:

• Upgrades, backups, and high availability (replica nodes) have to be handled separately from the rest of the platform.
• We cannot reuse our existing Kubernetes tooling for scaling, observability, node lifecycle, and policy enforcement.

For comparison, GitLab self-managed already offers this path through its official Helm chart and the GitLab Operator, which is one of the factors teams like ours weigh when choosing a self-hosted platform.

What we would like to know

1. Is a Kubernetes-based deployment option for GHES (for example, a Helm chart or an operator) on the roadmap?
2. If so, is there an expected timeline or a preview program we could join?
3. If not, is there a recommended approach today for teams that want to align GHES operations with an EKS-based platform?

Thanks in advance.

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