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SonarQube Installation And Setup In AWS EC2 Redhat Instance.

Prerequisite

• AWS Acccount.
• Create Redhat EC2 T2.medium Instance with 4GB RAM.
• Create Security Group and open Required ports.
  • 9000 ..etc
• Attach Security Group to EC2 Instance.
• Install java openJDK 1.8+ for SonarQube version 7.8

1. Create sonar user to manage the SonarQube server

#As a good security practice, SonarQuber Server is not advised to run sonar service as a root user, 
# create a new user called sonar and grant sudo access to manage sonar services as follows

sudo useradd sonar
# Grand sudo access to sonar user
sudo echo "sonar ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/sonar
sudo hostnamectl set-hostname sonar 
sudo su - sonar

1b. Assign password to sonar user

sudo passwd sonar

2. Enable PasswordAuthentication in the server

sudo sed -i "/^[^#]*PasswordAuthentication[[:space:]]no/c\PasswordAuthentication yes" /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sudo service sshd restart

3. Install Java JDK 1.8+ required for sonarqube to start

cd /opt
sudo yum -y install unzip wget git
sudo wget -c --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm
sudo yum install jdk-8u131-linux-x64.rpm -y

4. Download and extract the SonarqQube Server software.

sudo wget https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-7.8.zip
sudo unzip sonarqube-7.8.zip
sudo rm -rf sonarqube-7.8.zip
sudo mv sonarqube-7.8 sonarqube

5. Grant file permissions for sonar user to start and manage sonarQube

sudo chown -R sonar:sonar /opt/sonarqube/
sudo chmod -R 775 /opt/sonarqube/

6. start sonarQube server

sh /opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh start 
sh /opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh status

7. Ensure that SonarQube is running and Access sonarQube on the browser

sonarqube default port is = 9000

get the sonarqube public ip address

publicIP:9000

curl -v localhost:9000
54.236.232.85:9000
default USERNAME: admin
default password: admin