nexus-ansible

Overview

Install Latest Sonatype Nexus 3 on Ubuntu 22 using ansible
Sonatype Nexus is one of the best open-source artifact management tools. It is some tool that you cannot avoid in your CI/CD pipeline. It effectively manages deployable artifacts.

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Sonatype Nexus System Requirements

• Minimum 1 VCPU & 2 GB Memory
• Server firewall opened for port 22 & 8081
• OpenJDK 8
• All Nexus processes should run as a non-root nexus user.

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Steps

• Update the apt packages
• Install java 8
• allow firewall ports 22 and 8081
• Download the latest nexus in /opt directory
• Untar the downloaded file
• Rename the untared file to nexus
• create nexus group and user
• Create a service named nexus
• Change the ownership of nexus files to nexus user
• Create a nexus systemd unit file /etc/systemd/system/nexus.service
• Start and enable nexus service

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Validation

• run ansible-playbook nexus.yaml
• Visit http://<node ip>:8081
• Log in using default username admin and password found in app/sonatype-work/nexus3/admin.password

Now you will be able to see the nexus homepage