Can SonarQube Community Edition scan projects from multiple GitHub accounts/orgs on the same instan

SonarQube Server / Community Build
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Environment:

  • SonarQube Edition: Community Build v26.3.0.120487 (self-hosted, Docker)

  • CI/CD: Azure DevOps — Azure Pipelines

  • SCM: GitHub — multiple separate GitHub accounts/organizations

Current Setup:

We run a single SonarQube Community instance deployed via Docker. One project (ABC Web App) from GitHub Account A is currently configured and scanning successfully through Azure Pipelines. The pipeline sends results to SonarQube using SONAR_HOST_URL and a project-scoped SONAR_TOKEN.

What I Want to Achieve:

Onboard a second project (ABC Mobile App) from a different GitHub account/org (GitHub Account B) onto the same SonarQube Docker instance — without spinning up a separate SonarQube instance.

My Questions:

Q1 — Basic multi-project scanning (Community Edition): Is it supported to scan projects from two different GitHub accounts/organizations on the same Community instance? My understanding is that SonarQube projects are independent entities identified by sonar.projectKey, so the GitHub account origin shouldn’t matter at the scanner level. Is this correct? Can I simply:

  • Create a new project in SonarQube UI for ABC-mobile-app

  • Generate a new project token

  • Configure a new Azure Pipeline pointing to the same SONAR_HOST_URL with the new sonar.projectKey

…and have both projects scan independently?

Q2 — Does Developer Edition resolve this?

What I Haven’t Tried Yet:

I haven’t configured the second project yet, as I want to confirm the supported approach before making changes

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Hi,

Welcome to the community!

You can’t ‘bind’ multiple GH orgs to the same Community Build instance, but you can absolutely analyze their projects on the same instance. You won’t be able to import projects from the second org into SonarQube, but just ignore that part and go ahead an add analysis to their pipelines. Just make sure each project has a unique sonar.projectKey value, and you should be good to go!

 
HTH,
Ann