Hi everyone, Yesterday Luca Toscano and me had a call to look into improving the situation of artifact downloads by caching .
I was a bit surprised that the „nexus“ code is still in place and still seem to work somehow. Since having a repository server (a specialized proxy for maven repos) is technically a much cleaner solution than messing with the .m2/repository maven cache -- since it can be shared across architectures and os and even support more built tools -- I would like to step back from my proposal to use docker volumes to share the raw m2 cache between instances. What need to be done is to either update to a current version of nexus or switch to a different maven proxy which can be setup , updated and configured more easily. I asked a search machine for alternatives and tripped over this project https://github.com/jenkins-x/bucketrepo <https://github.com/jenkins-x/bucketrepo> which promises to be a low-footprint minimal replacement for nexus, which could even use S3 as a backing store. There was a configuration example for nginx as well : https://github.com/lkiesow/weblog.lkiesow.de/blob/master/20170413-nginx-as-fast-maven-repository-proxy.md <https://github.com/lkiesow/weblog.lkiesow.de/blob/master/20170413-nginx-as-fast-maven-repository-proxy.md> Best Olaf
