Installing SonarQube 8.9 LTS on Ubuntu

Installing SonarQube in ubuntu

• Perform a system update and install unzip

sudo apt update
sudo apt install unzip -y

• Install Openjdk11

sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk -y

• Install and Configure Postgres

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

• Enable and Start Postgresql

sudo systemctl enable postgresql
sudo systemctl start postgresql

• Change the passwd for postgres user

sudo passwd postgres

• Switch to postgres user and create a user called sonar

su - postgres
createuser sonar
psql

• Set a password for the newly created user for SonarQube database and create a database for Postgresql database

ALTER USER sonar WITH ENCRYPTED password 'P@ssword';
CREATE DATABASE sonar OWNER sonar;

• Exit the psql shell and switch back to the user by running exit comand

\q
exit

• Download Sonarqube

wget https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-8.9.1.44547.zip

• Unzip the sonarqube using following command

sudo unzip sonarqube-8.9.1.44547.zip -d /opt

• Rename the directory

sudo mv /opt/sonarqube-8.9.1.44547 /opt/sonarqube

• Create a non sudo linux user

sudo adduser sonarq

• Assign permissions to sonarqube directory

sudo chown -R sonarq:sonarq /opt/sonarqube/

• Sonarqube uses the elastic search service so increase vm max map

sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144

• Open the Sonarqube properties file sudo nano /opt/sonarqube/conf/sonar.properties and change the following properties

sonar.jdbc.username=sonar
sonar.jdbc.password=P@ssword
sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost/sonar
sonar.web.javaAdditionalOpts=-server

• Configure Sonarqube as service

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

• Add the following content to 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=sonarq
Group=sonarq
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Now enable and start sonarqube

sudo systemctl enable sonar
sudo systemctl start sonar
sudo systemctl status sonar

• Now access the sonarqube with the ip address of the server http://<ipaddress>:9000. Login into sonarqube with default credentails username: admin and password: admin