Adventures with Nexus in Kubernetes: database corruption and storage management

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Kids, when they teach you not to run databases in Kubernetes, please pay attention! I wish I followed this advice before rolling out a Sonatype Nexus artifact repository in Kubernetes. Here are some of the lessons I learned maintaining this installation, and dealing with disk space problems and database corruption issues.