Allow GitHub/GitLab accounts to be connected to multiple Render accounts | Feature Requests

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Allow GitHub/GitLab accounts to be connected to multiple Render accounts

planned

danielle

If you have multiple Render accounts, it can be helpful to be able to attach the same GitHub/GitLab account to multiple Render users.

October 25, 2020

zackkitzmiller

Major Blocker for anyone doing client work.

Michael Pollard

Big blocker for me, using other platforms until this is sorted out.

joshfester

Until this is ready, I am completely blocked from using Render for any of my clients

josh

I have many projects/clients and constantly get more new ones. I would love to use Render for all of them. Creating new github accounts would be an awful workaround. Until this feature is ready, I will have to continue using other platforms.

Bryce Lund

My small company uses Render and I have my Github account connected to Render. I want to use render for an side project, but even with a separate Render account I can't connect to my Github. Doesn't make sense.

telloluwaseunnow

Anurag Goel, Is there an updates about this feature? I had to disconnect my account from the Customer's project just to create a new account.

Michael Davis

After more thought, the main use case I can think of where this is

required

is if you're trying to deploy private repos from multiple different Render accounts. Since I'm only trying to deploy public repos from different business accounts (mainly so the client is responsible for the costs of deployment and service), simply creating different Render accounts, not connecting Github, and just pasting the URL of the public repo in as the target repo, is enough.

The main drawback is that you can't turn on auto-deploy, but I'm personally not a huge fan of that anyway.

Michael Davis

Until this Render feature is implemented (the obviously best solution to the problem), the best workaround I could think of is creating a new Github account for each "client project", creating the repo in that Github, and then sharing the repo with your personal Github so that you can still show an accurate and all-encompassing contribution history without needing to dilute/complicate that history by operating through several single-use Github accounts.

Anurag Goel

marked this post as

planned

Badr Belhiti

Anurag Goel: Thank you for considering this feature request. Is there a timeline on when this may get released? Wanting to use Render for my company, but I am unable to due to this problem.

Jack Damon

Badr Belhiti: I'm running into the same issue: I want to use Render for my company but am unable to due to also using my personal GitHub ID w/ my personal Render account

tom

Yep, seeing this as well. I use Render for a project, and am really happy with it, so I advocated for using it on another project with another company, and a part of my first-run experience was hitting this limitation and then needing to join the company's org with my personal email rather than my work email.

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