Nexus

Table of contents

1. Overview
2. Supported Platforms
3. Requirements
4. Installation
5. Usage
6. References
7. Development

Overview

This module will install the Nexus 3 (>= 3.1) in your system.

The default version is the 3.9.0-01.

This module can also configure SSL for Nexus.

Supported Platforms

This module was tested under these platforms

• EL 7
• Debian 8 and 9

Tested only in X86_64 arch.

Requirements

• Puppet >= 5.3.3
• Hiera >= 3.4.2 (v5 format)

Installation

Via git

# cd /etc/puppetlabs/code/environment/production/modules
# git clone https://github.com/instruct-br/puppet-nexus.git nexus

Usage

Quick run

puppet apply -e "include nexus"

Using with parameters

Example in EL 7 with no SSL

class { 'nexus':
  http_listen_address => '192.168.250.80',
  http_port           => 8080,
  major_version       => 3,
  minor_version       => 7,
  release_version     => 1,
  revision            => 02,
}

Example in EL 7 with SSL enabled

## first generate a certificate
## puppet cert generate nexus

java_ks { 'nexus_keystore_base':
  ensure       => latest,
  certificate  => '/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/ca.pem',
  target       => "${nexus::nexus_path}/etc/ssl/keystore.jks",
  password     => 'puppet',
  trustcacerts => true,
}

java_ks { 'nexus_keystore_certs':
  ensure              => latest,
  certificate         => '/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/nexus.pem',
  private_key         => '/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/private_keys/nexus.pem',
  private_key_type    => 'rsa',
  target              => "${nexus::nexus_path}/etc/ssl/keystore.jks",
  password            => 'puppet',
  password_fail_reset => true,
}

class { 'nexus':
  enable_https            => true,
  listen_address          => '192.168.250.80',
  https_port              => 8081,
  https_keystore          => "${nexus::nexus_path}/etc/ssl/keystore.jks",
  https_keystore_password => 'puppet',
}

References

Classes

nexus
nexus::install (private)
nexus::config (private)
nexus::service (private)

Parameters

user

Type: String

User that will execute Nexus and own its directories

group

Type: String

Group for Nexus user

temp_path

Type: String

Path where the file will be downloaded before extraction

install_path

Type: String

Path where Nexus will be extracted

service_name

Type: String

Name for Nexus's service

service_provider

Type: String

Service provider

os_ext

Type: String

Extension for filename that depends on OS

major_version

Type: String

Nexus's major version

minor_version

Type: String

Nexus's minor version

release_version

Type: String

Nexus's release version

revision

Type: String

Nexus's revision

http_port

Type: Integer

Port to serve HTTP

https_port

Type: Integer

Port to serve HTTPS

listen_address

Type: String

IP address Nexus listen (same for http and https)

enable_https

Type: Boolean

Whether to enable HTTPS or not

https_keystore

Type: String

Path to the keystore.jks

https_keystore_password

Type: String

Password to access the keystore

java_xms

Type: String

The JVM minimum heap size. Default to '512M'.

java_xmx

Type: String

The JVM maximum heap size. Default to '1200M'.

java_max_direct_mem

Type: String

The JVM maximum direct memory size. Default to '2G'.

manage_java

Type: Boolean

Whether this module will manage Java or not

java_distribution

Type: String

Java's desired distribution

Hiera Keys

Common

---
nexus::user: 'nexus'
nexus::group: 'nexus'
nexus::service_name: 'nexus3'

nexus::major_version: '9'
nexus::minor_version: '0'
nexus::revision: '01'


nexus::http_port: 8081
nexus::listen_address: '0.0.0.0'
nexus::enable_https: true
nexus::https_port: 8082

OS' Family Keys

---
nexus::temp_path
nexus::install_path
nexus::service_provider
nexus::os_ext

Hiera module config

This is the Hiera v5 configuration inside the module.

This module does not have params class, everything is under hiera v5.

---
version: 5
defaults:
  datadir: data
  data_hash: yaml_data
hierarchy:
  - name: "OSes"
    paths:
     - "oses/distro/%{facts.os.name}/%{facts.os.release.major}.yaml"
     - "oses/family/%{facts.os.family}.yaml"

  - name: "common"
    path: "common.yaml"

This is an example of files under modules/nexus/data

common.yaml
oses/family/RedHat.yaml
oses/family/Debian.yaml
oses/family/Windows.yaml
oses/family/Darwin.yaml

Development

My dev environment

This module was developed using

• Puppet 5.3.3
  • Hiera 3.4.2 (v5 format)
  • Facter 2.5.1
• CentOS 7.3
• Debian 8
• Vagrant 2.0.2 + VirtualBox 5.2.8
  • box: centos/7
  • box: debian/jessie64

Author/Contributors

Igor Oliveira