# Introduction

Quality gates enforce a quality policy for the results of code review and analysis in your organization by answering one question: is my project ready for release?

The built-in quality gate **Sonar way** is used by default as the default quality gate.

With the Administer Quality Gates permission, you can create your own quality gates, called custom quality gates.

**In this section:**

* [Understanding quality gates](/sonarqube-community-build/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/introduction-to-quality-gates.md)
* [Viewing a quality gate](/sonarqube-community-build/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/viewing-quality-gate.md)
* [Managing custom quality gates](/sonarqube-community-build/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/managing-custom-quality-gates.md)
* [Changing default quality gate](/sonarqube-community-build/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/changing-default-quality-gate.md)
* [Associating a quality gate with projects](/sonarqube-community-build/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/associating-projects-with-quality-gate.md)


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