Installing Nexus on a Solaris Zone
I recently setup a Nexus Pro instance on a Solaris zone for Apache. The ASF infra team requests documentation for any production instance to assist in maintenance down the road. I captured every step of the process from setting up the users, installing Nexus, hooking it into SMF (Solaris’s inet.d replacement), to configuring mod_proxy and https certificates, and allowing rsync access from the Maven Central Repository.
In addition to serving as a server book for this instance, I think these docs are a great resource for users to see an end to end installation on Solaris (almost all of it is applicable to Linux as well).
I will continue to update these pages as things change and will also document exactly how I have configured the Nexus application as well, to show how to properly configure Repository Targets, Permissions, Staging Profiles, etc.
Here’s the link to the docs, Enjoy.
Sonatype Maven Meetup on March 19th & 20th
As part of Sonatype’s effort to keep the community informed about our work on Maven, Nexus, m2eclipse and Hudson we are planning to have a two day meetup in Mountain View at the Sonatype office on March 19th & 20th. The first day will be a set of presentations, and the second day will be hackathon for those that want to get more involved in the projects, just chat with some of the developers, or get help implementing their own solutions. (more…)
Repository Management with Nexus Updated for 1.3.0
The Nexus book has been updated for the Nexus 1.3.0 release. Of particular interest in this update:
- Mapping External Roles to Nexus Roles
- Nexus Logging Configuration
- Selecting Mirrors for Proxy Repositories
- Configuring Mirrors for Hosted Repositories
- Installing a Nexus Pro License
- …and we have a new cover.
Read “Repository Management with Nexus” Online, and then Download Your Free Trial of Nexus Professional.
New Feature in Nexus 1.3: Mirror Support
There are many mirrors of the Central repository out there, but they are mostly under-utilized. I believe this occurs for two reasons:
- Users don’t know they exist – it’s not easy to find a good source for these URLs and locations.
- Users don’t have confidence in the mirrors – They don’t know how frequently they are updated, and don’t have an easy way to validate they are the same files that exist on Central.
In Nexus 1.3, we have introduced new functionality to solve both of those problems.
Nexus 1.3.0 Released
We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0 release of both Nexus Open Source and Nexus Professional. Nexus has reached a level of maturity where we can start focusing on refining the UI experience and testing the system for edge case stability. With the Nexus 1.3 release, we continue to make subtle changes to the Plugin API design that will allow the community to create even more compelling plugins and features. New Features in the 1.3.0 release:
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