Installing Helm chart

How to install the Helm chart for SonarQube Community Build.

Once you have customized the Helm chart, you can install it. You can also overwrite Helm chart parameters directly in the installation command, see Example: installing on OpenShift.

General installation command

Use the following command to install the latest SonarQube Community Build Helm chart.

helm repo add sonarqube https://SonarSource.github.io/helm-chart-sonarqube
helm repo update
kubectl create namespace sonarqube
export MONITORING_PASSCODE="yourPasscode"
helm upgrade --install -n sonarqube sonarqube sonarqube/sonarqube --set community.enabled=true,monitoringPasscode=$MONITORING_PASSCODE

• To specify the version to be installed, use the community.buildNumber parameter. By default, the latest version is installed.

• The parameters after --set can also be defined in the Helm chart.

• The monitoring Passcode is required for the helm upgrade operation. See Setting up monitoring for a better way to store the monitoring passcode used to authenticate to the Web API.

Example: installing on OpenShift

helm repo add sonarqube https://SonarSource.github.io/helm-chart-sonarqube
helm repo update
kubectl create namespace sonarqube
export MONITORING_PASSCODE="yourPasscode"
export JDBC_URL="jdbc:postgresql://myPostgres/myDatabase"
export JDBC_USERNAME="jdbc-username"
export JDBC_PASSWORD_SECRET_NAME="jdbc-secret"
export JDBC_PASSWORD_SECRET_KEY="jdbc-password"
helm upgrade --install -n sonarqube sonarqube sonarqube/sonarqube \
 --set OpenShift.enabled=true \
 --set community.enabled=true \
 --set monitoringPasscode=$MONITORING_PASSCODE \
 --set jdbcOverwrite.jdbcUrl=$JDBC_URL \
 --set jdbcOverwrite.jdbcUsername=$JDBC_USERNAME \
 --set jdbcOverwrite.jdbcSecretName=$JDBC_PASSWORD_SECRET_NAME \
 --set jdbcOverwrite.jdbcSecretPasswordKey=$JDBC_PASSWORD_SECRET_KEY

Setting up an external database for testing

The chart requires an external database. If you want to perform a quick test, install a PostgreSQL chart on your cluster. See this setup example for guidance. For more information and settings, refer to the chart documentation.

After installing the database, set the following values accordingly: jdbcOverwrite.jdbcUrl, jdbcOverwrite.jdbcUsername, jdbcOverwrite.jdbcSecretName, and jdbcOverwrite.jdbcSecretPasswordKey.

Related pages

• Customizing Helm chart

• Setting up monitoring