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 Automate Static Code Quality Analysis in SonarQube Cloud from GitHub Actions:

Pre-requisites in SonarCloud:

• Login to https://sonarcloud.io/ and then click on login.

Depending on your SCM tool, We will use GitHub. So please click on it.

Enter GitHub credentials to setup your account in SonarCloud. Click Authorize SonarQube Cloud.

Go to SonarCloud → My Account → Organizations → Create/Select organization

Choose “Import from GitHub” (or connect GitHub) and Install the SonarCloud GitHub App

Start analyzing a project:

Select Project and Click on Setup:

Check any one of the options to confirm what is new code:

Select with other CI tools

Select Maven, note organization key, project key and token.

Pre-requisites in GitHub Actions:

After setting up SonarCloud successfully, login to GitHub Actions. Create two secrets SONAR_TOKEN and SONAR_HOST_URL

Sonar URL should be https://sonarcloud.io/

 

GitHub Actions CICD Workflw code for running scan in SonarCloud

name: Implement static code analysis for a Java App using SonarQube from GitHub Actions

on:

  push:

    branches:

      - main

  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:

 build:

  runs-on: ubuntu-latest

  steps:

  - name: checkout code

    uses: actions/checkout@v3

  - name: Set up JDK

    uses: actions/setup-java@v3

    with:

      distribution: 'adopt'

      java-version: '11'

  - name: Build with Maven

    run: mvn clean install -f MyWebApp/pom.xml

  - name: Run SonarQube Scan

    uses: sonarsource/sonarqube-scan-action@master

    with:

      projectBaseDir: .

      args: >

        -Dsonar.organization=akannan1087

        -Dsonar.projectKey=akannan1087_my-javawebapp-repo

        -Dsonar.java.binaries=**/target/classes

    env:

      SONAR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SONAR_TOKEN }}

      SONAR_HOST_URL: ${{ secrets.SONAR_HOST_URL }}

Now login to SonarCloud under --> https://sonarcloud.io/projects

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