Sonarqube Installation on Ubuntu 16.04

Procedure

We shall build a cloud machine on GCP [ Google Cloud Platform ] add the DNS configuration to CloudFlare and create VPN Pool for Firewall configurations on GCP.

Installation Guide

Step-01: Update the Package Cache

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -y upgrade

Step-02: Install Oracle Java JDK

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt install oracle-java8-installer

Step-03: Install postgresql DB

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ lsb_release -cs-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'

wget -q https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get -y install postgresql postgresql-contrib

sudo systemctl start postgresql

sudo systemctl enable postgresql

Step-04: Change the password for the default PostgreSQL user

sudo passwd postgres

Step-05: Create new user for sonar

su - postgres

createuser sonar

# switch to postgresql prompt

psql

ALTER USER sonar WITH ENCRYPTED password 'StrongPassword';

CREATE DATABASE sonar OWNER sonar;

\q

Step-06: Download Sonar

wget https://sonarsource.bintray.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-7.6.zip

sudo unzip sonarqube-7.6.zip -d /opt

sudo mv /opt/sonarqube-7.6 /opt/sonarqube

sudo nano /opt/sonarqube/conf/sonar.properties

sonar.jdbc.username=sonar

sonar.jdbc.password=StrongPassword

sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost/sonar

Step-07: Install Sonarqube system service

sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/sonar.service

[Unit]

Description=SonarQube service

After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]

Type=forking

ExecStart=/opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh start

ExecStop=/opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh stop

User=root

Group=root

Restart=always

Step-08: Start and enable sonar service

sudo systemctl start sonar

sudo systemctl enable sonar

sudo systemctl status sonar

Step-09: Nginx Reverse Proxy for sonar

server {

    listen 80;

    server_name sonarqube.domain.com;

    location / {

        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9000/;

    }

}

Step-10: Access Sonar 

Access soanr at

sonarqube.domain.com, default username/password are admin/admin