Before you start

Requirements and known limitations of a SonarQube Server deployment on Kubernetes or OpenShift.

Installation requirements

The SonarQube Server Helm chart comes with default values for CPU and memory requests and limits. Depending on your system, you may have to adjust them.

See the Helm chart documentation for information about the supported Kubernetes and OpenShift versions.

Helm version 3 must be used.

Production use case

In a production use case:

• Ensure that the SonarQube Server Helm chart runs in a full restricted namespace (see Ensuring a restricted security level).

• Use your own Ingress controllers. Ingress controllers are critical Kubernetes components, we advise users to install their own.

• Use your own database.

The SonarQube Server Helm chart can deploy a PostgreSQL database. This database should be used for test purposes only.

For more information, see the production use case guidelines in the Helm chart documentation, which we strongly recommend following.

Known limitations

As SonarQube Server is intended to be run anywhere, there are some drawbacks that are currently known when operating in Kubernetes. This list is not comprehensive, but something to keep in mind and points for us to improve on.

Readiness and startup delays

When persistence is disabled, SonarQube Server startup takes significantly longer as the Elasticsearch indexes need to be rebuilt. As this delay depends on the amount of data in your SonarQube Server instance, the values for the startup/readiness and liveness probes need to be adjusted to your environment. We also recommend looking at the default limits for the SonarQube Server deployment, as the amount of CPU available to SonarQube Server also impacts the startup time.

Problems with Azure Fileshare PVC

Currently, there is a known limitation when working with AKS due to the way Azure Fileshare uses NTFS, which cannot handle the file system permissions and properties that SonarQube Server relies on. We recommend using another storage class for persistence on AKS.

Related pages

• Installation overview

• Customizing Helm chart

• Installing Helm chart

• Setting up monitoring

• Installing Data Center Edition on Kubernetes: Installing on Kubernetes or Openshift