How to Install SonarQube on Ubuntu 22.04

SonarQube or formerly Sonar is an open-source platform for static code analysis and code security. It allows you to perform static code analysis and code quality to detect bugs and enhance application security. It also provides reports such as duplicate code, coding standards, code complexity, and security recommendation.

With sonarQube, you can automate static code analysis for 29 programming languages. You can easily integrate SonarQube with your existing CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or IDE such as IntelliJ and Visual Code Studio.

In this guide, you will learn how to install SonarQube static code analysis on Ubuntu 22.04 server. You will also learn how to install PostgreSQL which will be used as the database for SonarQube and the Nginx web server that will be used as the reverse proxy.

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Commands Used:
sudo apt install default-jdk
java -version
wget -q https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc -O – | sudo apt-key add –
sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ `lsb_release -cs`-pgdg main” /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list’
sudo apt update
sudo apt install postgresql-13
sudo systemctl is-enabled postgresql
sudo systemctl status postgresql
sudo -u postgres psql
CREATE USER sonarqube WITH PASSWORD ‘Password’;
CREATE DATABASE sonarqube OWNER sonarqube;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE sonarqube TO sonarqube;
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sudo useradd -b /opt/sonarqube -s /bin/bash sonarqube
sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
vm.max_map_count=524288
fs.file-max=131072
sudo sysctl –system
ulimit -n 131072
ulimit -u 8192
sudo nano /etc/security/limits.d/99-sonarqube.conf
sonarqube – nofile 131072
sonarqube – nproc 8192
sudo apt install unzip software-properties-common wget
wget https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-9.6.1.59531.zip
unzip sonarqube-9.6.1.59531.zip
mv sonarqube-9.6.1.59531 /opt/sonarqube
sudo chown -R sonarqube:sonarqube /opt/sonarqube
nano /opt/sonarqube/conf/sonar.properties
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/sonarqube.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=sonarqube
Group=sonarqube
Restart=always
LimitNOFILE=65536
LimitNPROC=4096

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start sonarqube.service
sudo systemctl enable sonarqube.service
sudo systemctl status sonarqube.service
sudo apt install nginx
sudo systemctl is-enabled nginx
sudo systemctl status nginx
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/sonarqube.conf

server {

listen 80;
server_name sonar.hwdomain.io;
access_log /var/log/nginx/sonar.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/sonar.error.log;
proxy_buffers 16 64k;
proxy_buffer_size 128k;

location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9000;
proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto http;
}
}

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/sonarqube.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl restart nginx