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This is basically a two part question.

First I would like to know how I would go about creating a new repository on a Nexus3 container after the container starts up. I know the rough outline on what has to be done, I just dont know how to do it.
Basically, two cURL requests have to be sent to the container AFTER it is ready. The cURL requests are as follows:

curl -X POST -u admin:admin123 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' 
http://127.0.0.1:8081/service/rest/v1/script 
-d '"name":"newrepo","type":"groovy","content":"repository.createMavenHosted('''new-repo''');"'

curl -X POST -u admin:admin123 --header "Content-Type: text/plain" 'http://127.0.0.1:8081/service/rest/v1/script/newrepo/run'

(The above curl requests work when I manually send them via an app like Postman AFTER the container is ready. I am just unsure on how to make docker do it for me)

Secondly, I would like to know how to move artifacts to the newly created repository. Is there a location on the nexus3 image where I can just execute a COPY command and just copy the required artifacts to the repository?

Below is part of my docker-compose.yml

version: "2.1"
services: 
 nexus:
 container_name: nexus-container
 image: sonatype/nexus3
 ports:
 - "8081:8081"

This is just part of the entire file as the entire file a bit bigger therefore I did not want to post the entire thing, but I can do so if needed.

Thanks for any assistance provided :)

The work directory should be on persistent storage, so you shouldn't need to recreate configuration on every startup.

https://github.com/sonatype/docker-nexus3#persistent-data

That said, if you really do need to do this it can be done via the scripting/provisioning API's:

https://github.com/sonatype/docker-nexus3#persistent-data