Sonatype Nexus Repository Managers
Overview
Nexus OSS is the open source version of the Nexus Repository Manager. Thanks to its proxy functions, it enables open source components from public repositories to be cached internally as well as the hosting of software components developed in-house. Nexus Pro extends the Nexus OSS features to include build promotion, staging support and extensive authentication and authorisation functions. Nexus Pro also offers meta data management as well as support for distributed teams and high availability functionality.
Overview of the functions of Nexus OSS und Nexus Pro:
| Functions | Description | Nexus OSS |
Nexus Pro |
Repository management |
Management for proxy, hosted and virtual repositories | ||
Component search |
Component identification using various search criteria and identification of transitive dependencies without use of external tools |
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Meta data |
Add ‚key-value pair‘ annotations to relocate according components by search |
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Comprehensive tool and repository support |
Build tool support for Maven, Ant/Ivy, Gradle and support of various repository formats such as Maven1/2/3, NuGet, npm, RPM/Yum, RubyGems, OBR/OSGI, P2, APT, Bower, PyPI and Docker |
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Fine-granular access control |
User-customized create, read, update and delete rights, up to single component level |
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Enterprise authentication |
Beyond basic LDAP, Enterprise LDAP (caching support, various LDAP server, templates, failover etc.), Atlassian crowd integration, SSL certificate management and user token support |
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Staging and release |
Direct deloyment to selected repository using according build or deployment tool. Nexus Pro also offers a dedicated security setup, automated validation of defined rules and release Re-Run. |
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Component fabric |
Simple synchronised component access for distributed teams or organisations, based on intelligent system with storage replications |
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Enterprise support |
Technical support from Nexus Repository Manager experts with guaranteed SLA including 24/7 option |
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Additional component information |
Access to various additional component information including age, popularity, security vulnerabilities and license issues. |
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Integrations, plug-ins |
Many integrations and extensions including support for Docker Images, Chef and Puppet or CLI. Nexus' open source community adds constantly new extensions. |
Our opinion
The utilisation of a central artefact repository and a powerful repository manager is a matter of course nowadays for professional software development. In the enterprise environment, requirements almost always exist in the areas of authentication/authorisation, distributed development and manufacturer support, which can be covered easily when using Nexus Pro.
The company behind Nexus is Sonatype, who is the initiator of the Maven project and a pioneer when it comes to central artefact repositories. This is one of the reasons why we think Nexus is a very good choice.
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