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We're running nexus on some old hardware which is limited in disk space and would like to remove artifacts older than a certain threshold.
Is there any way to do this other than a combination of find and curl?
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You have two options to get rid of artifacts which are not needed any more. First you can configure “cleanup policies”. Another approach is that you might want to set up a task which executes a custom Groovy script which deals with the removal of old artifacts.
Login to nexus as an admin user. Go to Server Administration and Configuration. Go to Repository >> Cleanup Policies.
Nexus Repository OSS is an open source repository that supports many artifact formats, including Docker, Java™, and npm. With the Nexus tool integration, pipelines in your toolchain can publish and retrieve versioned apps and their dependencies by using central repositories that are accessible from other environments.
You can do it in a variety of ways: Use the Nexus artifact upload page (note this only works for multiple artifacts with the same groupId and artifactId). Set up a script, with multiple invocations of the maven-deploy-plugin's deploy-file goal, one for each artifact.
As mentioned on a Sonatype blog post linked from a comment in the blog in gavenkoa's answer, since Nexus 2.5 there is a built in "Remove Releases From Repository" scheduled task which can be configured to delete old releases keeping a defined number.
This is sufficient to meet our needs.
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