title: Can Nexus or Artifactory store simple tar.gz artifacts?
body: <p>I have cloud servers located in separate data centers across the world.  Each data center is separate from the others.</p>
  
  <p>I'm looking for an easy way to deploy artifacts to individual clusters of servers (that may be running different versions of software i.e. a dev, test, and production cluster) in each of these regions with ease and consistency.  It seems to me that an artifact server is what I need because I could execute an install script on the cloud server, which pulls down the correct software artifact.</p>
  
  <p>Now, I work on the operations side.  I don't care about doing builds, or managing software build dependencies.  I simply want an artifact server where I can store all the different versions of my packages for access at a later time.  The kicker, is that I have several different types of artifacts to store.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Shell scripts</li>
  <li>Python scripts</li>
  <li>Puppet manifests</li>
  <li>Debian files (often delivered as a tar.gz file of multiple debians)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Can Nexus or Artifactory manage all of these types of packages, or should I be looking in a different direction?  I'm not opposed to adding make files to my shell script projects that simply generate tar.gz files.  I just don't want to go down the path of setting up an artifact repository, when ultimately, a little scripting, wget, and an apache server would work just fine.</p>