Self-host Sonatype Nexus Repository with Docker

A universal artifact repository for Maven, npm, Docker, PyPI, and more, with proxying and caching.

This page describes the Levelrail template for Sonatype Nexus Repository (Developer Tools). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server.

Project site: https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository.html.

Recommended memory: about 3072 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
nexus	sonatype/nexus3:3.96.3	8081	nexus_data -> /nexus-data

Environment variables

This template sets no environment variables.

Passwords and keys marked as generated are created for you when the app is deployed and stored as secrets. Values are not shown here.

Deploy Sonatype Nexus Repository with Levelrail

In the dashboard, open Apps, choose New app, then Browse templates, and select Sonatype Nexus Repository. Review the Compose body and deploy.

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy nexus --name my-nexus

See Service template catalog for how templates work, and Getting started if you have not installed Levelrail yet.

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