scorpio2002/nexus repository overview

⁠docker-nexus

A container image for Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager OSS, based on Alpine Linux.

⁠Current software

• Alpine Linux 3.14
• OpenJDK JRE 8u212
• Nexus Repository Manager OSS 3.39.0 (release notes⁠)

⁠Running

Running it locally (for the latest tag, check https://hub.docker.com/r/scorpio2002/nexus/tags⁠:

docker run -p 8081:8081 --name nexus scorpio2002/nexus:3.39.0

⁠Reasoning

The Official Sonatype Nexus Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/sonatype/nexus3/⁠ is suitable for most use cases. But as discussed in this blog post: https://www.sonatype.com/travel-audience-devops-pipeline-solution⁠ being able to restore from a backup requires stopping the nexus service. And this is not possible with the official image, as described in this bug report: https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-23442⁠

So while travel audience would prefer to support the official image, this is not possible at this time, and we hope that this lightweight image provides a suitable alternative to the community in the meantime.

The travel audience Nexus Docker image provides the following features that are not present in the official image:

• uses runit to run nexus under a secondary process
• uses an Alpine base image, instead of RedHat's UBI8
• provides an optional flag to make sure all mounted data is owned by the nexus user (nexus will have issues if that's not the case)