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Introduction To Sonarqube

In this article, we will provide you the introduction to sonarqube.

What Is Sonarqube?

‘SonarQube (formerly Sonar)[1] is an open-source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs, code smells, and security vulnerabilities on 20+ programming languages’

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonarQube

Sonarqube Architecture

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Sonarqube contains 4 components

Sonarqube scanner – This component is used to analyse your code.
Sonarqube server – This component contains three other components
1. Webserver – This is the component where SonarQube instance is configured
2. Search server – This component searches the database and displays the result on UI. This component searches the data based on elastic search.
3. Compute engine server – This component process code analysis report and save them in sonarqube database.
Plug-ins – These are the components installed on webserver for multiple additional functionalities.
Sonarqube database – This component data related to code analysis.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Thursday, September 19, 2019

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