Sonatype Nexus Installation

Introduction

In tis simple post I will show how to install and run Sonatype Nexus based on systemd service and docker containers

Requirements

• Ubuntu 20.4
• Java 1.8 (if we decide to use standalone installation)
• Latest version of Docker engine (if we decide to use Docker containers)

Let’s start

Standalone installation

• Download and install Sonatype Nexus OSS

root@vagrant:/tmp# useradd nexus
root@vagrant:/tmp# wget https://download.sonatype.com/nexus/3/nexus-3.30.0-01-unix.tar.gz
root@vagrant:/tmp# cd /opt
root@vagrant:/opt# tar xvf /tmp/nexus-3.30.0-01-unix.tar.gz
root@vagrant:/opt# mv nexus-* nexus
root@vagrant:/opt# find nexus -exec chown nexus:nexus {} \;
root@vagrant:/opt# find sonatype-work -exec chown nexus:nexus {} \;

• Create systemd service for Sonatype Nexus OSS

Create file in /etc/systemd/system/nexus.service

• Update context path in /opt/sonatype-work/nexus3/etc/nexus.properties