SonarQube Masterclass From Basics to Advanced

Course Description

This comprehensive SonarQube course is designed to take you from foundational knowledge to expert-level mastery in static code analysis. You’ll learn everything from SonarQube installation and architecture to deep integration with DevOps pipelines. The curriculum covers critical concepts like Quality Gates, issue management, and security scanning, all demonstrated with real-world projects. You will also master advanced administrative tasks, including upgrade strategies, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and leveraging new AI-driven features to maintain impeccable code quality across your organization.

Who is this course for

This course is designed for IT professionals who are responsible for building, maintaining, or improving software quality and security. It is ideal for:

• DevOps Engineers: Who want to integrate automated code analysis into CI/CD pipelines.

• Software Developers (Senior & Lead): Who are responsible for setting and enforcing code quality standards within their teams.

• QA Automation Engineers: Who wish to shift quality checks earlier into the development lifecycle ("shift-left").

• Security Professionals (AppSec): Who use static analysis to identify vulnerabilities.

• System Administrators: Who are tasked with installing and maintaining a SonarQube instance.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Install and Administer SonarQube: Set up, configure, and secure a production-ready SonarQube server.

• Integrate with DevOps Pipelines: Automate code scans within CI/CD tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI.

• Enforce Code Quality: Create and customize Quality Profiles and Quality Gates to meet your team's standards.

• Analyze and Manage Issues: Triage and manage bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells reported by SonarQube.

• Scan Diverse Projects: Configure scans for various project types, including multi-language monorepos.

• Perform Advanced Operations: Execute upgrades, monitor server health, tune performance, and integrate with tools like Jira and OWASP Dependency-Check.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, you should have:

1. Fundamental Software Development Knowledge: An understanding of the software development lifecycle.

2. Basic CI/CD Concepts: Familiarity with the purpose of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).

3. Command-Line Proficiency: Comfort working in a Linux or Windows terminal.

4. Basic Programming Familiarity (Helpful): Knowledge of at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) will help in understanding the scan results.

Course outline

Section 1: Introduction to Static Scanning

1. Purpose and Benefits of Static Code Analysis

2. Common use cases in enterprise environments

3. Overview of Languages and Ecosystems Supported

Section 2: SonarQube Features & Architecture

1. Core Components: Server, Scanner, and Database

2. SonarQube Editions: Community vs. Developer/Enterprise

3. Understanding Permissions, Tokens, and User Roles

Section 3: SonarQube Installation and Configuration

1. Hands-on Lab: Installing a SonarQube Server

2. Hands-on Lab: Setting up Nginx in SonarQube server

3. System Requirements for Sonarqube

4. Sonarqube Setup Best Practices

5. Hands-on Lab: Configuring Server Settings and Security

6. Hands-on Lab: User Management and Permissions

7. Hands-on Lab: Setting up Email Notifications

Section 4: Sonar scanner and Sonar UI

1. Hands-on Lab: Installing the Sonar Scanner

2. Hands-on Lab: Running Your First Code Scan

3. SonarQube Dashboard Overview

4. Hands-on Lab: Managing Issues (Create User, Assign, Change Status)

Section 5: DevOps Pipeline with project walkthrough

1. Hands-on Lab: Setting up Rate Limiting for Nginx

Section 6: Quality Gates and Quality Profiles

1. What are Quality Profiles?

2. Hands-on Lab: Customizing Rules in a Quality Profile

3. What are Quality Gates?

4. Hands-on Lab: Creating a Custom Quality Gate

Section 7: Issue Types and Severity Model

1. Issue Classification: Bugs vs. Vulnerabilities vs. Code Smells

2. Common Issue Types and How to Fix Them

3. Understanding Severity Levels (Blocker, Critical, Major, etc.)

4. How Severity Impacts Quality Gates

5. When to Suppress or Justifying Issues

Section 8: Working with various projects on Sonarqube

1. Hands-on Lab: Configuring MonoRepo in Sonarqube

Section 9: Improving and Maintaining Code Quality

1. Using Project History to Track Codebase Improvement

2. Understanding SonarQube’s Technical Debt Calculation

3. Strategies to Reduce Long-Term Debt

4. Hands-on Lab: Integrating OWASP Dependency-Check

Section 10: Upgrade Strategy and Compatibility

1. Strategies of Upgrading the Database

2. Ensuring Minimal Downtime during Upgrades

3. Integration: Automatically Creating Jira Tickets from SonarQube Scans

Section 11: Monitoring and troubleshooting sonarqube

1. Hands-on Lab: Reading and Understanding SonarQube Logs

2. Common Failure Modes and Their Resolutions

Section 12: Best Practices and Tips

1. Hands-on Lab: Performance Tuning and Horizontal Scaling

2. Maintenance Tasks for SonarQube Administrators

Section 13: AI features in Sonarqube

1. Hands-on Lab: Connect SonarQube MCP Server via Claude Desktop

2. Sample Prompts for SonarQube MCP Server

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