docker login not working with nexus 3 private registry

Question

Nexus UI Config

I am running Nexus Repository Manager OSS 3.0.1-01 on a linux VM On that VM, I have nginx working to reserve proxy http requests as https. My SSL key

Answer 1

I had to add an additional (server) entry in my nginx config, right below the previous entry

restart nginx

docker client, will connect to port 6666, nginx will route the traffic to port 4444 which

# correlates to your nexus http connector
server {
    listen 6666;
    server_name box.company.net;
    keepalive_timeout 60;
    ssl on;
    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/conf.d/net.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/conf.d/net.key;
    ssl_ciphers HIGH:!kEDH:!ADH:!MD5:@STRENGTH;
    ssl_session_cache shared:TLSSSL:16m;
    ssl_session_timeout 10m;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    client_max_body_size 1G;
    chunked_transfer_encoding on;

    location / {

      access_log              /var/log/nginx/docker.log;
      proxy_set_header        Host $http_host;
      proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
      proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Proto "https";
      proxy_pass              http://x.x.x.x:4444;
      proxy_read_timeout      90;

    }
}

then I could do

docker login -u username -p password box.company.net:6666
docker pull box.company.net:6666/docker-image:tag
docker push box.company.net:6666/docker-image:tag