Nexus Repository

Sonatype Nexus Repository Core is a centralized binary repository manager for internal and third-party binaries, components, and packages. It acts as a single source of truth for development tools, with visibility across the software delivery lifecycle and repository formats for Maven, raw, and APT.

Nexus Repository Core uses an embedded H2 database suited to small workloads. After building, it runs as a Java application and creates a sonatype-work directory containing default administrator credentials, the database, and the file blobstore. Community Edition adds formats such as npm, Docker, NuGet, PyPI, and many others.

The open source core is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0. Sonatype also provides Community Edition binaries with external PostgreSQL database support for Kubernetes deployments, while Nexus Repository Pro is a separate customer-supported edition.