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Sonatype Nexus Repository pros and cons

Vendor: Sonatype

4.1 out of 5

16 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Sonatype Nexus Repository offers flexibility through proxy and federate repositories, enhancing integration across large organizations. Security is bolstered with a variety of permissions and internal scanning features. It supports multiple technologies, providing access to global packages. However, integration through configuration files is needed. Uploading NPM and JavaScript libraries is complex, and multifactor authentication support is deficient. Enhancements are required for OSF-type license support and grouped functionality for Docker images.

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PROS

Sonatype Nexus Repository provides seamless proxying and federations of repositories, crucial for large organizations, facilitating flexibility and comprehensive integration.

The platform excels in security and permission control, offering robust authentication and role management features that ensure secure access management.

Its support for multiple programming languages and extensive package compatibility makes it easy to onboard and integrate diverse technologies within enterprises.

The internal scanning capabilities and vulnerability assessments are key features for maintaining high security standards and compliance across projects.

Sonatype Nexus Repository enhances operational efficiency, contributing to faster application deployment and improved speed to delivery.

CONS

Nexus Repository integration is hindered by complex configuration through API calls and databases instead of configuration files.

There is a need for built-in scanning features rather than requiring the purchase of Nexus IQ Server add-ons.

Current functionality lacks support for hot publication between multiple Nexus instances, which is essential for globally distributed teams.

Nexus Repository should improve support for multiple data centers to enhance scalability and high-availability.

The convoluted process for uploading NPM and JavaScript dependencies requires improvement.

Sonatype Nexus Repository Pros review quotes

Architect at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 11, 2019

For us, the ability to do proxying and federations of repositories is very important. It gives us flexibility. We are the largest physics research laboratory in the world. With 12,000 people, we need to have good solutions to federate organizations inside our lab.

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YS

Senior Information Technology Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Feb 13, 2019

If there are any issues in build security, it can pick them up straight away.

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Chief, Enterprise Automated Deployment (EAD) Branch at a government with 11-50 employees

Feb 14, 2019

One of the most valuable features is the variety of permissions you can use on the repository. That helps us protect access to the information inside of the repository.

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Senior Software Engineer at Systema GmbH

Feb 22, 2019

The primary feature is that I now have the ability to provide a central platform for storing build artifacts; a concise way for any project team to store its build with us.

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Kulbhushan Mayer

DevOps Practitioner at a recreational facilities/services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 24, 2019

The searching capability is good... and we are managing multiple central repositories.

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Senior Application Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Feb 24, 2019

The core features are the most important: We can host libraries, upload them, and they can be used across multiple teams.

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Christophe Arnaud

Engineering Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Jun 26, 2019

The most important feature of Nexus Repository Manager is the storing and sharing of components. For Nexus IQ, it's the scanning of projects and the rating of vulnerabilities and license violations that we may have in our products.

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CS

Project Manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 6, 2019

The key benefit we get from it is speed to delivery. It has improved our overall time to get new applications out with new code. That's true whether from a platform perspective, where we are quickly deploying up-to-date docker containers, or whether we are looking to deploy new code out to deliver a new application.

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Senior Big Data Engineer - Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

Mar 24, 2022

The most valuables features of the Sonatype Nexus Repository are you can block any uploads that you do not want. For example, from Maven. Even though someone will try to create a pump file with a package not currently in our repository, they can go and get it, but it won't store it into the Sonatype Nexus Repository and therefore won't be propagated across the enterprise.

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Principal Engineer at Interos Solutions, Inc.

Apr 7, 2022

Navigation on the UI is easy and simple to understand.

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Sonatype Nexus Repository Cons review quotes

Architect at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 11, 2019

We feel that if the product could be configured more easily through configuration files, instead of API calls and databases, that would make it easier to integrate with other DevOps tools. This is one of the hurdles that we encountered when we tried to integrate Nexus 3 with our OpenShift installation.

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Senior Information Technology Specialist at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Feb 13, 2019

We had some issues with the container platform, but we raised a support ticket and it was sorted out for us.

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Chief, Enterprise Automated Deployment (EAD) Branch at a government with 11-50 employees

Feb 14, 2019

I would like to see them build in some scanning features out-of-the-box, as opposed to only getting them by buying the add-ons of Nexus IQ Server. I would like to see some level of ability to filter in the tool itself, through scanning the binaries in there.

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Senior Software Engineer at Systema GmbH

Feb 22, 2019

I'm waiting for hot publication between several Nexus instances. That's more important for me right now because in our company we have several locations distributed all over the world, and each location is producing its own artifacts, sometimes for the same project. I really would appreciate a scenario where the developers could provide their data to the local repository and it would be hot-replicated to the other repository instances.

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Kulbhushan Mayer

DevOps Practitioner at a recreational facilities/services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 24, 2019

They should have some feature where we can move a specific repository from one instance of Nexus to another instance of Nexus. As of now, this feature doesn't exist.

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Senior Application Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Feb 24, 2019

When it comes to uploading NPM libraries, JavaScript dependencies libraries, it is a little bit of a convoluted process. They need to improve uploading libraries for NPM-type repositories.

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Christophe Arnaud

Engineering Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Jun 26, 2019

[A] main feature that is missing in Nexus IQ is the ability to explore the history of the different reports that have been generated for a given product. For the time being, in the Nexus IQ UI, we are only able to browse the latest reports that have been generated for a given product. It would be really useful for us to be able to go back in time by browsing through the reports and to have a tool that would give us the evolution of the metrics.

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CS

Project Manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 6, 2019

We've had some challenges around the database they use. We've had some big outages and it's due to the fact that we haven't found the database they use is all that stable... We've had some really positive conversations with Sonatype around that and they've provided us with the support and special services to help us migrate off of that, on to another type of database platform which we have more control over.

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reviewer1775037

Senior Big Data Engineer - Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

Mar 24, 2022

Sonatype Nexus Repository could improve by making the experience working with CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Action or GitLab better.

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Principal Engineer at Interos Solutions, Inc.

Apr 7, 2022

Lacks an end-to-end solution for developers to sign and store an image.

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