diff --git a/ansible/roles/nexus/tasks/configure.yml b/ansible/roles/nexus/tasks/configure.yml
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+---
+- name: "check if the configuration script is uploaded"
+  uri:
+    url: "{{ nexus_url }}/service/rest/v1/script/configure"
+    method: GET
+    force_basic_auth: yes
+    user: admin
+    password: admin123
+    status_code: [200, 404]
+  register: script
+- block:
+    - name: "upload the configuration script"
+      uri:
+        url: "{{ nexus_url }}/service/rest/v1/script"
+        method: POST
+        force_basic_auth: yes
+        user: admin
+        password: admin123
+        body_format: json
+        body:
+          name: configure
+          type: groovy
+          content: "{{ lookup('file', 'files/configure.groovy') }}"
+        status_code: [204]
+    - name: "execute configuration script"
+      uri:
+        url: "{{ nexus_url }}/service/rest/v1/script/configure/run"
+        method: POST
+        force_basic_auth: yes
+        user: admin
+        password: admin123
+        body_format: raw
+        headers: { "Content-Type": "text/plain" }
+  when: script.status == 404
diff --git a/ansible/roles/nexus/tasks/insert-images.yml b/ansible/roles/nexus/tasks/insert-images.yml
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+---
+- name: Load docker images and push into registry
+  block:
+    - set_fact:
+        component: "{{ (item.path | basename | splitext)[0] }}"
+
+    - name: Docker login
+      docker_login:
+        registry: "{{ runtime_images[component].registry }}"
+        username: admin
+        password: admin123
+
+    - name: Load and push component {{ component }}
+      docker_image:
+        name: "{{ runtime_images[component].registry }}{{ runtime_images[component].path }}"
+        tag: "{{ runtime_images[component].tag }}"
+        push: yes
+        load_path: "{{ item.path }}"
+
diff --git a/ansible/roles/nexus/tasks/install.yml b/ansible/roles/nexus/tasks/install.yml
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+---
+- name: Change ownership of nexus_data
+  file:
+    path: "{{ app_data_path }}/nexus_data"
+    owner: 200
+    group: 200
+    recurse: yes
+
+- name: Load nexus image
+  docker_image:
+    name: sonatype/nexus3
+    load_path: "{{ app_data_path }}/offline_data/docker_images_infra/sonatype_nexus3_latest.tar"
+    state: present
+
+- name: Create nexus network
+  docker_network:
+    name: nexus_network
+    state: present
+
+- name: Run nexus container
+  docker_container:
+    name: nexus
+    image: sonatype/nexus3
+    networks:
+      - name: nexus_network
+    volumes:
+      - "{{ app_data_path }}/nexus_data:/nexus-data:rw"
+    state: started
+    restart_policy: unless-stopped
diff --git a/ansible/roles/nexus/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/nexus/tasks/main.yml
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+---
+- include_tasks: "{{ phase }}.yml"
diff --git a/ansible/roles/nexus/tasks/runtime-populate.yml b/ansible/roles/nexus/tasks/runtime-populate.yml
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+---
+- name: Find images to be inserted into nexus in runtime
+  find:
+    paths: "{{ aux_data_path }}"
+    patterns: '*.tar'
+  register: tar_images
+
+# WA: block of tasks cant be executed in iterations
+# need to iterate over those tasks in include
+- include: "insert-images.yml"
+  with_items: "{{ tar_images.files }}"
+