Setup SonarQube on docker container

SonarQube on Docker container.md

How to setup SonarQube with PostgreSQL DB on Docker Container?

• Let's start creating a docker network for both SonarQube and PostgreSQL database, as they both need to be on the same network to communicate with each other.
• If you are restarting the server make sure the docker service is enabled so that it will automatically start SonarQube and PostgreSQL docker containers.

You can enable docker by passing command:

sudo systemctl enable docker

Start with cleaning process:

If there is any docker container with either SonarQube or Postgres, let's delete it and create a new one.

#SonarQube
docker stop sonarqube
docker rm sonarqube
  
#PostgreSQL
docker stop postgres
docker rm postgres

If there is any docker network with the same name, let's delete it and create a new one.

docker network rm sonarqube_network

Container creation process:

Creating new docker network...

docker network create sonarqube_network

Creating new PostgreSQL docker container...

docker run --name postgres --restart=always -e POSTGRES_USER=root -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=Mypass12345 -p 5432:5432 --network sonarqube_network -d postgres

Creating new SonarQube docker container...

docker run -d --name sonarqube --restart=always -p 9000:9000 -e sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://postgres/postgres -e sonar.jdbc.username=root -e sonar.jdbc.password=Mypass12345 --network sonarqube_network sonarqube

If you already have container running and you want to automatically start the container after every server restart, then use the following command;

docker update --restart=always [container id or container name]

Verification:

• SonarQube should be up and running at http://localhost:9000 or http://your-ip4-address:9000.
• The default credentials to login into the SonarQube are;

  username: admin
  password: admin
  

Now you should be able to use SonarQube in Jenkins pipeline for Continuous Inspection, by configuring SonarQube into Jenkins.