Working with External Hub
YouTrack is always connected to a Hub service. The Hub service supports authentication, authorization, and user management.
When YouTrack is installed as a standalone application, you can choose whether to use the Hub service that is built into YouTrack or install and run Hub as an external application. An external Hub installation lets you centralize user management operations for YouTrack, Upsource, and TeamCity installations. It also enables single sign-on and some additional integration features for these applications.
With an external Hub installation, several features that are otherwise accessible in YouTrack are displayed in the native Hub interface. These features include:
| Dashboards | Hub dashboards support widgets for all of the services that are connected to Hub. This includes widgets that display information from Upsource and TeamCity. The page that lets administrators manage custom widgets is also |
| Projects | Hub projects serve as a collection of resources from Hub and other services that are connected to it. For example, a Hub project can contain a project from YouTrack and a project from Upsource as resources. Adding users to the project team in Hub grants access to all of the resources that are allocated to the Hub project. |
| Access Management | Settings and controls for managing users, groups, roles, auth modules, and other authorization parameters are all delegated to the external Hub service. All of the links to pages in the Access Management section of the Administration menu in YouTrack redirect to Hub. |
Server Settings | Many of the settings that you would otherwise manage in the YouTrack interface are centrally managed for all applications in the external Hub service. The following links in the Server Settings section of the Administration menu in YouTrack redirect to pages in Hub: The following items are removed from the Administration menu and are only accessible in the menu of the external Hub application. |
As an administrator, there are a few operations that you might have to perform to keep your YouTrack and Hub installations