chapter-community.asciidoc

Community

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Introduction

{oss} and {pro} are widely used in a large variety of organizations for numerous different use cases.

Integrating the repository manager and expanding its features is encouraged and enabled by the availability of {oss} under the Eclipse Public License, the REST API and the support for plugins as part of the repository manager itself, including writing your own plugins.

A number of tools are available to facilitate the community of users.

TheNexus

A community website with numerous resources including blog posts, videos, announcements and many others available at http://nexus.sonatype.org.

Users Mailing List

General discussion and support for anyone using and developing with {pro} or {oss} - Browse or Subscribe.

Chat

Sonatype provides a live chat channel to connect to other users and developers as well as Sonatype support and development staff.

Source Code

The {oss} codebase is a great reference for your development of custom integrations and plugins. It is available on GitHub at https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-oss.

Community Overview

Community projects range from open source efforts run by Sonatype, projects run by {pro} customers or {oss} users to one man, one-off hacks for some older version.

When using any of these projects, ensure you keep the quality of the project and their impacts on your production repository manager in mind.

Plugins

Plugins expand functionality of the repository manager itself in various aspects on the user interface and underlying features:

{oss} Plugins https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-oss/tree/master/plugins

Large number of plugins bundled with {oss} including YUM support, P2 support and others.

Example Plugins https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-example-plugins

Example plugins from Sonatype.

APT Plugin https://github.com/Tangresh/nexus-apt-plugin

APT/DEB repository support.

Rundeck Plugin https://github.com/rundeck/nexus-rundeck-plugin

Integration with Rundeck

Webhook Plugin https://github.com/vbehar/nexus-webhook-plugin

Support for webhook notifications for component deployments.

Artifact Usage Plugin https://github.com/saleemshafi/nexus-artifact-usage-plugin

Plugin to display components depending on a specific component.

Dependency Mgt. Plugin https://github.com/Terracotta-OSS/nexus-dependency-management-plugin

Plugin to display the dependency tree of a component with further detailed information.

GroupId Mgt. Plugin https://github.com/UW-Madison-DoIT/nexus-groupid-management-plugin

Plugin to help with provisioning security per groupId.

Repository Cleanup Plugin https://github.com/Vlatombe/nexus-repository-cleanup-plugin/

Scheduled task that can remove components based on age and a regular expression pattern.

Gitlab Token Auth Plugin https://github.com/jdamick/nexus-gitlab-token-auth-plugin

Authentication support using Gitlab user token.

AWS S3 Publish Plugin https://github.com/carrot-garden/carrot-nexus

lugin to publish components deployed to the repository manager also to AWS S3.

Hipchat for Nexus Plugin https://bitbucket.org/tpettersen/hipchat-for-nexus

Supports notifications in HipChat when components matching a pattern are deployed to the repository manager.

Integrations

Nexus Maven Plugins https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-maven-plugins

The official Nexus Staging Maven Plugin and the Nexus M2Settings Maven Plugin from Sonatype. The plugins are using the REST API client library and can be used as example for your own Maven plugins or other Java based clients.

Nexus Ant Tasks https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-ant-tasks

The official Nexus Staging Ant Tasks from Sonatype.

Puppet Module for Nexus https://github.com/hubspotdevops/puppet-nexus

Puppet module to install and configure {oss}, authored by HubSpot

Puppet Module for Nexus https://forge.puppetlabs.com/atlassian/nexus_rest

Another Puppet module to manage a {pro}, authored by Atlassian

Nexus Cookbook https://github.com/RiotGames/nexus-cookbook

Chef cookbook to install and configure {pro}.

Openshift Nexus https://github.com/hongun/openshift-nexus

Scripts to provision {pro} on OpenShift.

Nexus Ruby CLI https://github.com/RiotGames/nexus_cli

Ruby-based set of command line programs to interact with {pro}.

Nexus Python CLI https://github.com/stardust85/repositorytools/

Python-based set of command line programs to interact with {pro}.

Nexus RPM Package https://github.com/jbraeuer/nexus-oss-rpms

{oss} as RPM package.

Nexus DEB Package https://github.com/tobrien/nexus-oss-deb

{oss} as DEB package.

Puppet Nexus Client https://github.com/cescoffier/puppet-nexus

Puppet module to retrieve components from a .

Gradle Plugin https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-nexus-plugin

Gradle plugin to deploy components to {pro} and via OSSRH to the Central Repository.

Gradle Staging Plugin https://github.com/adaptivecomputing/plugins-gradle/tree/master/nexus-workflow

Gradle plugin to deploy components to {pro} and via OSSRH to the Central Repository with good support for staging automation.

SBT Plugin https://github.com/xerial/sbt-sonatype

Gradle plugin to deploy components to {pro} and via OSSRH to the Central Repository.

List Versions Jenkins Plugin https://github.com/USGS-CIDA/list-nexus-versions-plugin

Jenkins plugin to display available component versions.

Nexus Metadata Jenkins Plugin https://github.com/marcelbirkner/nexus-metadata-plugin

Jenkins plugin to add custom metadata with deployments to {pro}.

Artifact Promotion Jenkins Plugin https://github.com/jenkinsci/artifact-promotion-plugin

Jenkins plugin allowing you to promote components to different repositories in {oss}

Go Maven Poller https://github.com/ThoughtWorksInc/go-maven-poller

Package material plugin for Go that can poll a Nexus reposi for components.

Nexus Docker Image https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/conceptnotfound/sonatype-nexus/

Simple Docker image including {oss}.

Nexus NPM Docker Image https://github.com/marcellodesales/nexus-npm-registry-docker-image

Docker Image of {oss} with NPM support preconfigured

Other Community Projects

Nexus Performance Testing Library https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-perf

Regression and stress test library for {oss} from Sonatype.

Repository Management With Nexus https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-book

The source code for the book, which is the official documentation for {oss} and {pro}.

Nexus Book Examples https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-book-examples

Examples for the trial guide chapter of the book 'Repository Management with Nexus'.

Nexus Introduction https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-introduction-presentation

Slides and examples to present about {pro} and {oss} at user groups or in similar settings.

Contributing

All of the projects listed in Other Community Projects are community efforts and open to your participation. If you are aware of any other projects or would like to have your project listed here, please contact us at books@sonatype.com.