Introduction of Sonatype Nexus

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Rajesh Kumar — an award-winning academician and consultant trainer, with 15+ years’ experience in diverse skill management, who has more than a decade of experience in training large and diverse groups across multiple industry sectors.

What is Nexus?

World’s #1 Repository Manager

A artifact repository mgmt tools
Single source of truth for all of your components, binaries, and build artifacts
Efficiently distribute parts and containers to developers
Deployed at more than 100,000 organizations globally

Why Nexus?

Saving Time
Saving Cost
Improve Quality of Software Development

Why SonaType Nexus?

To Store the artifact
Standard Process and Directory Layout
Saving time
Integrity of the package
Availability is time consuming
Security
Enforces for Standard Process
Maintenance & Cleanup
Schedule the maintenance
Backup
Mirror
Agile

Shorter Release
Quality
Time

Release

Nexus Repository OSS

Universally manage binaries and artifacts for FREE.

Nexus Repository Pro

Universally manage binaries and artifacts with HA and support.

https://www.sonatype.com/products/repository-oss-vs-pro-features

Other Package Repository Manager

Jfrog Artifactory
Apache Archiva
Nuget Gallery

Nexus vs Artifactory

Universal Support for All Popular Build Tools

Store and distribute Maven/Java, npm, NuGet, Helm, Docker, P2, OBR, APT, GO, R, Conan components and more.
Manage components from dev through delivery: binaries, containers, assemblies, and finished goods.
Advanced support for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) ecosystem, including Gradle, Ant, Maven, and Ivy.
Compatible with popular tools like Eclipse, IntelliJ, Hudson, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Docker, and more.

Repository Formats

Apt Repositories
Bower Repositories
CocoaPods Repositories
Conan Repositories
Conda Repositories
Docker Registry
Git LFS Repositories
Go Repositories
Helm Repositories

Maven Repositories
npm Registry
NuGet Repositories
p2 Repositories
PyPI Repositories
R Repositories
Raw Repositories
RubyGems Repositories
Yum Repositories

Prerequisite: Install & Configure Nexus?

Nexus Repository Manager requires a Java 8 Runtime Environment (JRE)
Minimum CPUs: 2
Memory Requirements - 4GB

https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/installation/system-requirements

Traditional Way

Docker Way

Workflow: Working with Nexus

How to access?

http://localhost:8081/nexus

How to login?

admin/admin123

Repository Types in Nexus

Hosted
Proxy
Group

Upload Artifacts

http://goo.gl/VptTqr

Download Artifact

http://goo.gl/DD2Ksk

Nexus Administration

Users
Roles
Privileges
LDAP

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