How to integrate SonarCloud with Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline | SonarCloud Integration with Azure DevOps | Automate Code Scan using SonarCloud In Azure YAML Pipelines

Please find steps below for integrating SonarCloud to perform static code analysis using Azure DevOps YAML pipeline.

Pre-requisites in SonarCloud:

Visit https://sonarcloud.io/

Click on Azure DevOps, enter your Microsoft credentials.

Create an Organization, click on Import from a DevOps platform

Create a Token in Azure DevOps with Read & Write Access under Code:

Import organization details. Select free plan.

Pre-requisites:

• Azure DevOps Account
• Make sure Java Project is setup in Azure Repos and default branch is either main or master.
• Service connection to integrate with SonarCloud from Azure DevOps
• Make sure you install SonarCloud plug-in/Add-on in Azure DevOps using below URL:

How to add SonarCloud plug-in in Azure DevOps?

Go to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/

And look for SonarQube Cloud Add-on

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SonarSource.sonarcloud

Once added SonarQube plug-in, click on proceed to Organization..

How to integrate SonarCloud with Azure DevOps:

Create Token in SonarQube to authenticate with Azure DevOps

You need to login to SonarQube using your admin password. admin/admin123 and click on Admin on your top side.

Click on My Account, Security. 

Under Tokens, Give some value for token name and choose Global analysis token, click on generate Tokens. Copy the token value generated.

Create Service Connections in Azure DevOps 

Login to Azure DevOps. Select your project dashboard.

Click on Project settings --> Service connections

click on New service connection

Type SonarQube and Click Next

Enter SonarQube server url and enter Token created 

Give name for service connection and select Grant access permission to all pipelines.

Click on Save.

Create a YAML Pipeline in Azure DevOps

1. Login to Azure DevOps. Go to Azure Pipelines. Click on create a new pipeline, Select GitHub:

2. Select your GitHub repo and select the Maven as YAML pipeline template

3. Click on show assistant on right hand side, type SonarQube and select Prepare Analysis on SonarQube task and then select Service connection from the drop down and choose Integrate with Maven or Gradle option and then click on Add task

Sample Code for entire pipeline is here below

Azure DevOps Pipeline YAML Code:

trigger:

- main

pool:

vmImage: ubuntu-latest

steps:

- task: SonarCloudPrepare@4

inputs:

SonarQube: 'my_sonar_cloud'

organization: 'mydevopscoachingapp'

scannerMode: 'CLI'

configMode: 'manual'

cliProjectKey: 'MyDevopsCoachingApp_mySep2025WeekendRepo'

cliProjectName: 'MyWebApp'

- task: Maven@4

inputs:

mavenPomFile: 'MyWebApp/pom.xml'

mavenOptions: '-Xmx3072m'

javaHomeOption: 'JDKVersion'

jdkVersionOption: '1.17'

jdkArchitectureOption: 'x64'

publishJUnitResults: true

testResultsFiles: '**/surefire-reports/TEST-*.xml'

goals: 'clean install sonar:sonar'

- task: PublishTestResults@2

inputs:

testResultsFormat: 'JUnit'

testResultsFiles: '**/surefire-reports/TEST-*.xml'

failTaskOnFailedTests: true

Click on Save and Queue to kick start build.
Now login to SonarCloud dashboard, click on Projects: