How to fail an Azure pipline on a failed Sonar quality gate

[Joe]

Hi @jerry.brimacombe,

Welcome to SonarSource community!

Are you able to still block merges if the quality gate fails? Perhaps these community guides will help:

Blocking the merge of Pull Requests on failed Quality Gate, with Azure DevOps Services

The Azure Devops cloud offering as well as recent versions of Azure Devops Server were improved with tighter integration of PR Analysis Quality Gate status checks. The guide for the configuration for Azure Devops Server 2019 and TFS 2015+ is still applicable. This post thus describes the configuration steps needed to block the possibility to merge PRs after the Quality Gate for them failed: [image] Prerequisites: SonarQube 8.x (official Azure Devops Services support expected for the next …

Blocking the merge of Pull Requests on failed Quality Gate, with Azure DevOps

With Azure DevOps it’s possible to block the merge of a pull request if the SonarQube Quality Gate is failed on the PR (Pull Request). This feature is available with Azure DevOps Server 2019 as well as TFS 2015 and higher. For Azure Devops Services (or cloud) as well as some recent Azure Devops Server versions(late 2019 & 2020), the configuration relying on branch policies and status checks is described here. This is called a Build policy in Azure DevOps, and can be defined per target branch,…

Joe