Self-host SonarQube Community with Docker

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This page describes the Levelrail template for SonarQube Community (Developer Tools). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server.

Project site: https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-community-build.

Recommended memory: about 3072 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
db	postgres:16-alpine	none	sonarqube_db_data -> /var/lib/postgresql/data
sonarqube	sonarqube:community	9000	sonarqube_data -> /opt/sonarqube/data sonarqube_extensions -> /opt/sonarqube/extensions sonarqube_logs -> /opt/sonarqube/logs

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
db	POSTGRES_DB	Preset in the template
db	POSTGRES_PASSWORD	Generated at deploy
db	POSTGRES_USER	Preset in the template
sonarqube	SONAR_JDBC_PASSWORD	Generated at deploy
sonarqube	SONAR_JDBC_URL	Preset in the template
sonarqube	SONAR_JDBC_USERNAME	Preset in the template

Passwords and keys marked as generated are created for you when the app is deployed and stored as secrets. Values are not shown here.

Deploy SonarQube Community with Levelrail

In the dashboard, open Apps, choose New app, then Browse templates, and select SonarQube Community. Review the Compose body and deploy.

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy sonarqube --name my-sonarqube

See Service template catalog for how templates work, and Getting started if you have not installed Levelrail yet.

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