Installing Helm chart

How to install the Helm chart for SonarQube Server’s Developer or Enterprise Edition.

Once you have customized the Helm chart, you can install it. You can also overwrite Helm chart parameters directly in the installation command (see OpenShift example below).

General installation command

Use the following command to install the latest SonarQube Server 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 edition=developer,monitoringPasscode=$MONITORING_PASSCODE

• You must explicitly set the edition parameter to either developer or enterprise.
• The parameters after --set can also be defined in the values.yaml file. See Customizing Helm chart.
• If you want to deploy the SonarQube Server LTA version, you should install the LTA Helm chart, see the Helm chart documentation.
• 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

The following command enables OpenShift.

helm repo add sonarqube https://SonarSource.github.io/helm-chart-sonarqube
helm repo update
kubectl create namespace sonarqube
export MONITORING_PASSCODE="yourPasscode"
export EDITION="developer" # Choose your edition
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 edition=$EDITION \
  --set OpenShift.enabled=true \
  --set monitoringPasscode=$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

• Installation overview

• Before you start

• Customizing Helm chart

• Setting up monitoring

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

Related online learning

• Installing SonarQube Server Enterprise Edition on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)