How to publish Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages on Nexus.

What are Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a platform where you can enhance both security and performance of your infrastructure. Whether it’s for your private cloud, your hybrid cloud or standalone physical servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux can help you build a more secure, lower-cost business. Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes with the most comprehensive support in the industry, helping you plan for your IT needs well into the future.

What is Nexus?

The Nexus repository is a repository that facilitates the discovery, access and installation of public artifacts. It supports open source dependencies and references them in Maven-compatible package declarations. The most common use is to resolve a target dependency by hashing a file with a specified MD5 sum and using Nexus to look up the artifact in its local cache or available repositories . It is also possible to combine Maven (and other) metadata with an artifact before publication.

Publish Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages on Nexus with packagecloud

If you’re looking to publish Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages on Nexus, you can use packagecloud to handle all of your package management. Packagecloud works with all kinds of packages, not only Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages. With packagecloud you can manage all of your packages from various OS’s, languages, and more. Always trust that your packages will be secure when you publish your Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages on Nexus via packagecloud.