Integrating Jenkins and SonarQube
So, first let's see how to configure SonarQube with Jenkins so that we can perform static code analysis by triggering it from Jenkins.
Go to Manage Jenkins
, click on Manage Plugins
, and then click on the Available
tab. Find the SonarQube plugin and install it.
Go to Manage Jenkins
, and then click on Configure System
. Find the SonarQube servers
section and click on the Add SonarQube
server. Provide Server URL
and credentials. Get a Server
authentication token
from SonarQube (Administration
| Security
| Users
) and provide it in Jenkins:

Go to Global Tool Configuration
in Manage Jenkins
and configure the SonarQube Scanner
to install automatically:

Create a new freestyle job in Jenkins. Configure JDK path of agent where SonarQube is installed.
Install the Quality gate
plugin as well. By configuring the Quality gate
plugin, we can fail the Jenkins build job if SonarQube analysis fails.
Configure the repository URL of the project. Go to Job configuration and in the...