Component Lifecycle Best Practices

Staging

Use staging to separate your developer and production environments

• Clear endpoints for each stage in the pipeline
• Create a release candidate to test or discard before being promoted
• Avoid dependencies on non-production artifacts
• Promotion workflow is driven by CI
• Clean up fast based on artifact lifecycle
• Learn more at Staging Concepts

Tagging

Use tagging to attach metadata to your components

• Keep build metadata for release artifacts
• Include a link to the application scan report from Nexus Lifecycle
• Include a link to the software bill of materials (SBOM) with your builds

Use short tag names and attributes to maximize the performance of tag-related operations and storage utilization

• Maintaining tags with attributes of maximum allowable size (20k) could result in poor performance

Use the Admin - Cleanup tags task to clean up unused tags

• Remove aged or unused tags

Use a standard naming scheme to avoid duplicating tags

• Prevent naming collisions and interruptions to CI pipeline workflows.