Repository Management in Nexus Repository 2

The proliferation of different repository formats and tools accessing them as well as the emergence of more publicly available repositories has triggered the need to manage access and usage of these repositories and the components they contain.

In addition, hosting your own private repositories for internal components has proven to be a very efficient methodology to exchange components during all phases of the software development life cycle. It is considered a best practice at this stage.

The task of managing all the repositories your development teams interact with can be supported by the use of a dedicated server application – a repository manager. Put simply, a repository manager provides two core features:

Just as Source Code Management (SCM) tools are designed to manage source code, repository managers have been designed to manage and track external dependencies and components generated by your build.

Repository managers are an essential part of any enterprise or open-source software development effort and they enable greater collaboration between developers and wider distribution of software by facilitating the exchange and usage of binary components.

Once you start to rely on repositories, you'll realize how easy it is to add a dependency on an open source software library available in a public repository, and you might start to wonder how you can provide a similar level of convenience for your own developers. When you install a repository manager, you are bringing the power of a repository like the Central Repository into your organization. You can use it to proxy the Central Repositories and other repositories, and host your own repositories for internal and external use.

Capabilities of a Repository Manager. In addition to these two core features, a repository manager can support the following use cases:

Advantages of Using a Repository Manager. Using a repository manager provides a number of benefits including: