Introduction to Azure DevOps integration

SonarQube's integration with Azure DevOps allows you to maintain code quality and security in your Azure DevOps repositories.

The integration is compatible with both Azure DevOps Server and Azure DevOps Services.

Key features

With this integration, you’ll be able to:

  • Import your Azure DevOps repositories into SonarQube Community Build to easily set up SonarQube Community Build projects.

  • Integrate smoothly SonarQube Community Build analysis into your Azure build pipeline with the Azure DevOps extension for SonarQube.

  • Report the analysis’ quality gate status right in Azure Pipeline’s Build Summary page.

SonarQube integration with Azure DevOps is done based on Azure DevOps extension for SonarQube.

Check out this video on SonarQube integration with Azure DevOps.

SonarQube Community Build doesn’t support the analysis of multiple branches and pull requests. See Feature comparison table to find out which SonarQube deployments support these features and how they integrate with Azure DevOps.

Integration is performed at two levels:

  • Global: Within your SonarQube instance, an “Azure DevOps Configuration” record is used to manage the SonarQube access to your Azure DevOps Services organization or Azure DevOps Server collection. This record stores:

    • Your organization’s or collection’s URL.

    • An Azure DevOps Personal Access Token (PAT) which is used by SonarQube to access your Azure DevOps Services organization or Azure DevOps Server collection. This PAT is usually created from a dedicated technical account.

  • Project: A project administrator must provide Azure DevOps PAT to import their Azure DevOps repository to SonarQube. SonarQube stores this PAT in its database, enabling it to list and import the repositories the administrator can access.

It means that SonarQube uses two different Azure DevOps PATs:

  • The global PAT to access your organization or collection in order to import repositories or report the quality gate status in Azure Pipelines.

  • The project PAT to check the user's permissions on repositories when a user imports Azure DevOps repositories.

Two different Azure DevOps PATs are used for SonarQube Server integration with Azure DevOps.

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