chrisipa/nexus repository overview

⁠Sonatype Nexus

Nexus docker image based on Debian Jessie and Oracle JDK 8.

⁠Source Code

Sources to build this docker image can be found here⁠.

⁠Description

This Nexus docker image contains the following software components:

• Oracle JDK 8⁠
• Apache Maven 3⁠
• Nexus Repository Manager OSS⁠

⁠Ports

These Nexus ports are exposed:

• 8081 (GUI)
• 8082 (Docker Registry)

⁠How to run the container

⁠Environment variables

When you start the Nexus container, you can adjust the configuration by passing one or more environment variables on the docker run command line:

⁠INSTALL4J_ADD_VM_PARAMS

• The additional options for the java process
• Default value: -Xms1200m -Xmx1200m -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=2g -Djava.util.prefs.userRoot=${NEXUS_DATA}/javaprefs

⁠NEXUS_CONTEXT_PATH

• The webapp context path as string
• Default value: /

⁠NEXUS_SESSION_TIMEOUT

• The session timeout of the nexus webapp in milliseconds
• Default value: 600000

⁠SONATYPE_WORK

• The folder for sonatype working data
• Default value: /opt/sonatype-work

⁠Using docker

⁠Preparation: Create a underprivileged user on the host system

1. Create group and user:

sudo groupadd -g 1001 chrisipa
sudo useradd -u 1001 -g 1001 -m -s /usr/sbin/nologin chrisipa

⁠Example 1: Evaluation usage without persistent data

1. Run Nexus container with this command:

docker run --rm -p 8081:8081 chrisipa/nexus

⁠Example 2: Production usage with mounted volume and context path

1. Create a folder for Sonatype work data on the docker host:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/sonatype-work
sudo chown 1001.1001 /opt/sonatype-work

1. Run Nexus container with this command:

docker run -d --name nexus -p 8081:8081 -v /opt/sonatype-work:/opt/sonatype-work chrisipa/nexus

⁠Example 3: Real world usage running docker-compose

1. Create docker compose file docker-compose.yml with your configuration data:

nexus:
  image: chrisipa/nexus:latest
  volumes:    
    - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
    - /opt/sonatype-work:/opt/sonatype-work
  ports:
    - 8081:8081

1. Run docker containers with docker compose:

docker-compose up -d

⁠Advanced topics

⁠Accept self signed SSL certificates from Nexus JRE

See parent image: chrisipa/jdk⁠