How to Create a dev sonar environment parallel to production for developer edition?

[harishbabumullapudi]

Hi All
I have a production sonarqube environment (8.9 version) which is up and running with developer edition on AWS ec2 instance. Currently i want to create a dev/staging environment where i can attempt testing like upgrade before attempting on production.
I read that as the current environment uses port 9000 and i need to used port 9001 for a new sonarqube. Here are the following questions i have

1. I spinned up the new ec2 using the production ec2 AMI so that can i just change the port to 9001 and try starting sonarqube ?
2. Should I configure the DNS record for the dev soanrqube for the company records ?
3. Need a confirmation if i can use the port 9001 and change the security groups in aws accordingly?
4. If all the process, can i use a new of the sonarqube postgreSQL from the production backup snapshot and use it for the dev sonar server?

Thank you

[Colin]

Hey there.

@harishbabumullapudi

• I spinned up the new ec2 using the production ec2 AMI so that can i just change the port to 9001 and try starting sonarqube ?

If you’re running two SonarQube servers on same machine (same IP address), you’ll need to adjust the ports (both sonar.web.port and sonar.search.port).

@harishbabumullapudi

• Should I configure the DNS record for the dev soanrqube for the company records ?

Sounds like a good idea.

@harishbabumullapudi

• Need a confirmation if i can use the port 9001 and change the security groups in aws accordingly?

Sounds like a good idea.

@harishbabumullapudi

• If all the process, can i use a new of the sonarqube postgreSQL from the production backup snapshot and use it for the dev sonar server?

Yes – the idea would be to take a copy of your Postgres database (normal pg_dump and pg_restore) and start your new SonarQube instance against the copy of the database