Setting up SonarQube server

To setup the Sonarqube server on the EC2 instance, use the following commands:

sudo apt install unzip
sudo su -
adduser sonarqube
sudo su - sonarqube
wget https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-9.4.0.54424.zip
unzip *
chmod -R 755 /home/sonarqube/sonarqube-9.4.0.54424
chown -R sonarqube:sonarqube /home/sonarqube/sonarqube-9.4.0.54424
cd sonarqube-9.4.0.54424/bin/linux-x86-64/
./sonar.sh start

The SonarQube server can be accessed using the following URL:

http://<ip address of instance>:9000

Enter both username and password as "admin" and change the password after logging in.

SonarQube homepage

Go to Profile > Security and generate a new token which will be used in the Jenkins pipeline.

Generating a token for Jenkins

Inside Jenkins Dashboard, go to Manage Jenkins > Credentials > System > Global Credentials and add a new credential. Set the Kind as Secret Text and paste the SonarQube token and put the ID as "sonarqube". This ID is used to fetch the token in the Jenkinsfile.