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Sonatype Nexus Repository artifact for Release Pipelines

This extension provides support for Nexus Maven Repositories when leveraging Release Pipelines, the initial version includes Release Pipeline Artifact support for Nexus Maven Repositories as well as providing Azure Pipelines tasks for downloading assets from Maven Repositories.

Team Foundation Server 2018 Support

The extension which is published to the marketplace is supported for the Azure DevOps Server 2019 and Azure DevOps Service targets only. If you wish to install this extension on TFS 2018 please download the latest server 2018 VSIX package i.e. soft-cor.nexus-custom-release-artifact-server-2018-extension-[version].vsix from the GitHub Releases.

Usage

This extension requires you to first configure a service connection to connect to your Nexus Repository server. Once connected, you can link a source artifact from the a Nexus Maven Repository and use these artifacts in your Release Pipeline.

Connecting to Nexus Repository

Go to project settings -> Services Connections tab and create a New Service Connection of type Sonatype Nexus Repository.

Creating a Sonatype Nexus Repository connection

The authentication scenarios which are currently supported by the extension are :

  • Username & Password
  • Anonymous

If your Nexus Repository server is deployed in a private cloud which is behind a firewall and the Azure DevOps Service does not have line of sight to the server - the Artifact fields will not be dynamically populated at design time and you will have to manually provide these values.

Linking a Nexus Maven Repository artifact

Once you have set up the service connection, you will be able to link to a Nexus Maven Repository artifact in your release definition.

Linking Nexus Maven Repository artifact

Once you have selected the Service Connection, you will be able to select the relevant repository from the pre-populated repository drop-down. You will also be asked to select the repository, and specify the Nexus components details.

Linking Nexus Maven Repository artifact

Output Variables

The tasks proviuded by this extension make use of output variables to provide the downloaded assets file name to subsequent tasks executing in the same pipeline.

The following output variables are set:

  • MAVEN_REPOSITORY_ASSET_FILENAME - The primary file name of the asset which was downloaded from your Maven Repository based on the packaging.
  • MAVEN_REPOSITORY_ASSET_FILENAMES - The comma seperated list of all the file names for the assets which were downloaded from your Maven Repository.