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Nexus connector settings reference

This topic provides settings and permissions for the Nexus Connector.

Nexus Permissions Required​

Ensure the connected user account has the following permissions in the Nexus Server.

  • Repo: All repositories (Read)
  • Nexus UI: Repository Browser

See Nexus Managing Security.

For Nexus 3, when used as a Docker repo, the user needs:

  • A role with the nx-repository-view-*_*_* privilege.

Artifact Type Support​

Legend:

  • M - Metadata. This includes Docker image and registry information. For AMI, this means AMI ID-only.
  • Blank - Not supported.
Docker Image(Kubernetes/Helm)AWS AMIAWS CodeDeployAWS LambdaJARRPMTARWARZIPPCFIIS
MM

Docker Support​

Nexus 3 Artifact Servers only.

Nexus Artifact Server​

The Harness Nexus Artifact server connects your Harness account to your Nexus artifact resources. It has the following settings.

Name​

The unique name for this Connector.

ID​

See Entity Identifier Reference.

Description​

Text string.

Tags​

See Tags Reference.

Nexus Repository URL​

The URL that you use to connect to your Nexus server. For example, https://nexus3.dev.mycompany.io/repository/your-repo-name.

Version​

The Version field in the dialog lists the supported Nexus version, 3.x.

For Nexus 3.x, Harness supports only the Docker repository format as the artifact source.

Credentials​

The username and password for the Nexus account.

The password uses a Harness Encrypted Text secret.

Nexus Artifact Details​

Repository URL​

The URL you would use in the Docker login to fetch the artifact. This is the same as the domain name and port you use for docker login hostname:port.

Repository Port​

The port you use for docker login hostname:port. As a best practice, include the scheme and port. For example https://your-repo:443. If you cannot locate the scheme, you may omit it, for example your-repo:18080.

For more information, see Docker Repository Configuration and Client Connection and Using Nexus 3 as Your Repository – Part 3: Docker Images from Sonatype.

Repository​

Name of the repository where the artifact is located.

Artifact Path​

The name of the artifact you want to deploy. For example, nginx, private/nginx, public/org/nginx.

The repository and artifact path must not begin or end with /.

Tag​

Select a Tag from the list.