Enterprise SonarQube server, and SonarCloud capabilities

SonarQube Cloud
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Must-share information (formatted with Markdown):

  • which versions are you using (SonarQube, Scanner, Plugin, and any relevant extension) - N/A
  • what are you trying to achieve - SonarCube installed
  • what have you tried so far to achieve this - Played around with the hosted solution on Sonarcloud.io

Hi Sonarcube team,

I am seeing if we can use Sonarcube for our team’s need for Code quality, Automated testing reporting, coverage etc. I am seeing Sonar as a possible solution for this. My questions are manifold to understand applicability for this tool for our purposes:

a) Hosting Sonarcube server
– I see there’s a hosted server that I can see public projects in (as well as their analysis). Can I use this for enterprise scale?
– Can I get away from having to deploy the server and having to maintain it hence?
– I was having trouble setting up plugins in the hosted server on sonarcloud.io (golang). All the plugin installation instructions point to having a self installed server. I could not find Administration -> Marketplace
b) About testing
– I see that I can trigger tests reports by executing them using the scanner (and use the golang test -v plugin)
– We have an automated test suite for integration tests which does not provide much value as Coverage tool but has more value when it comes to pass/fail%. I see there’s some documentation to upload arbitrary test results. We plan to use it across tests in Frontend/Mobile/Backend services. Is this something that is inherently supported as a use case?

Thanks for your guidance here.

Cheers
–Sanket

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Hi Sanket,

I’ve recategorized this as being about SonarCloud since your first several questions are really about it. In general, it’s best to limit yourself to one question/topic per thread, so feel free to edit topic ‘b)’ out of the original post and start a new thread with it.

 
:slight_smile:
Ann

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To answer your questions about SonarCloud:

  • You can use SonarCloud for enterprise needs and scale. However, you won’t get the governance features which come with the SonarQube Enterprise edition (that you need to install on premise)
  • If the scope of SonarCloud fits your needs, using this service will indeed save you from installing and maintaining the server.
  • It is not possible to install plugins on SonarCloud.