Infrastructure with maven, Jenkins, Nexus

Question

We are using maven. I want to set up infrastructure, so that automatically built artifacts would go to Nexus repository. And then they could be used by developers.

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Answer 1

If this is a Jenkins question rather than a Maven question, I'd recommend using the inbuilt Jenkins "Deploy Artifacts to Maven repository" Post build Action for most cases.

Advantages in my opinion:

• More portable (we use different repositories for different stages of the life cycle), and each Jenkins instance knows it's own repository
• More obvious to anyone reading the Jenkins job
• More in line with the Jenkins way of doing things