# Custom GitHub App

Before creating your container, you'll need to create a GitHub app for your organisation.

## Creating a GitHub OAuth app

From GitHub, click on your profile picture and chose "Settings":

![Step 1](/nx-cloud/enterprise/on-premise/images/github_auth_step_1.png)

Then "Developer settings" from the left-hand menu:

![Step 2](/nx-cloud/enterprise/on-premise/images/github_auth_step_2.png)

Then "GitHub Apps":

![Step 3](/nx-cloud/enterprise/on-premise/images/github_custom_app_step_3.avif)

And create a new GitHub app:

![Step 4](/nx-cloud/enterprise/on-premise/images/github_custom_app_step_5.avif)

Give it a name, and a homepage URL. The callback URL is the important bit. It needs to be in this form:

```
[your-nx-cloud-url]/callbacks/github-user

# for example
https://my.nx-enterprise.url:8080/callbacks/github-user
```

Once you create the app, keep a note of the Client ID and App ID:

![Step 6](/nx-cloud/enterprise/on-premise/images/github_custom_app_step_6.avif)

Then generate a new client secret, and save it somewhere secure (we'll use it in a bit):

![Step 7](/nx-cloud/enterprise/on-premise/images/github_auth_step_7.png)

## Configure Permissions for the GitHub App

The following permissions are required for Nx Cloud to work:

Repository permissions:

- `Contents: Read & Write`
- `Pull requests: Read & Write`
- `Checks: Read Only`
- `Commit Statuses: Read & Write`
- `Issues: Read & Write`
- `Metadata: Read Only`

Organization permissions:

- `Administration: Read Only`
- `Members: Read Only`

## Connect Your Nx Cloud Installation

Provide the following values to your developer productivity engineer so they can help connect Nx Cloud to your custom GitHub app:

- Github App Client ID
- Github App Client Secret
- Github App App ID