SonarQube installation on CentOS

Pre-Requirement: 

Add port forwarding rule to Vagrantfile
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 9000, host: 9000

Then reload VM with below command

vagrant reload

Follow below instructions to install and configure SonarQube

1) Download the SonarQube software.
cd /opt
sudo wget https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-7.6.zip

2) Extract sonarqube software
sudo unzip sonarqube-7.6.zip
sudo mv sonarqube-7.6 sonarqube

4) Please change permissions 

cd /opt/

sudo chown -R vagrant:vagrant sonarqube

5) Start Sonar
cd /opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64
./sonar.sh start

You should able to access SonarQube over 9000 port now. By default admin/admin will be credentials for SonarQube.

If you are using VM or Vagrant please enable port forwarding.

6) Enable Sonar as service on centos 7
Create sonar service file
sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/sonarqube.service

7) Cope below content to above file. If you want to change user to run sonarqube process please update User and Group.

[Unit]
Description=SonarQube service
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=vagrant
Group=vagrant
PermissionsStartOnly=true
ExecStart=/bin/nohup java -Xms32m -Xmx32m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -jar /opt/sonarqube/lib/sonar-application-7.6.jar
StandardOutput=syslog
LimitNOFILE=65536
LimitNPROC=8192
TimeoutStartSec=5
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target


8) Start and Enable Sonar Service
sudo systemctl start sonarqube
sudo systemctl enable sonarqube

9) Check SonarQube status to ensure it is working as expected.
sudo systemctl status  sonarqube