Update

Latest versions updated to SonarQube LTS: v6.7.6, Latest: 7.6

Basic Info

Windows container with SonarQube, Java, and MySQL as Database for SonarQube. It provides an easy way to run of SonarQube with sharing MySQL and SonarQube Extensions folders for more comfortable work with SonarQube.

SonarQube® software (previously called Sonar) is an open source quality management platform, dedicated to continuously analyze and measure technical quality, from project portfolio to method.

Containers are based on Microsoft Nanoserver and OpenJDK. Nanoserver was used to save your resources. However, for special purposes there are versions based on Microsoft Windowsservercore.

MySQL version used: 5.7.16

Dockerfiles for builds are shared in GitHub and built images are available on DockerHub. Files are fully windows-native, so you can customize them for your needs if you don't like a version from DockerHub.

Containers have two shared Volumes. One for MySQL data and the second one is for "Extensions" folder for SonarQube. MySQL data Volume is needed to not lose your SonarQube history after restarting the container. Extensions Volume is need to give ability to update plugins to newer versions for SonarQube.

I recommend assigning extensions folder to a useful path on your host-machine. This will make you easier to add custom plugins for SonarQube like Community C++ Plugin or any other one.

Available versions

Tag	SonarQube Version	Base Container	Size	Source
:latest	7.6 Latest	nanoserver	3.46 GB	GitHub
:lts	6.7.6 LTS	nanoserver	3.41 GB	GitHub
:latest-windowsservercore	7.6 Latest	windowsservercore	12.8 GB	GitHub
:lts-windowsservercore	6.7.6 LTS	windowsservercore	12.7 GB	GitHub

Usage (Command Line)

docker pull dnikolayev/sonarqube-mysql-windows

Note: On windows 10 default memory allocation is different to windows 2016 server. Please don't forget to add --memory 2g to the next command Discussion on GitHub

docker run --name sonar  -it -p 9000:9000  `
-v C:/data/mysql:C:/MySQL/data `
-v C:/data/extensions:C:/sonarqube/extensions `
dnikolayev/sonarqube-mysql-windows:latest

To check configuration of the run container:

docker inspect sonar

Usage (Visual)

• Let's try to use Kitematic to run SonarQube container.

• Find this container via my nickname dnikolayev

• Select the tag (Version) you want to use. To go into this menu - please click on ". . ." button

• Don't forget to go to "Settings" to configure local folders, network and other settings. Than Run the container.

• Once container loads - you will have SonarQube working. Just add extensions you need for you work.

Notes

By default, SonarQube starts via Java Service Wrapper. This container doesn't use it and runs SonarQube via jar-file directly. This was done because of the fact that nanoserver allows you to run only 64-bit applications. However, 64-bit version of java-wrapper uses some 32-bit libraries?! So, on nanoserver it just doesn't start without throwing any errors. Thanks to NanoServerApiScan utility. It gave me ability to see the source of the problem :)

Good luck with your code quality checks!