We need to implement the SSL encryption for AWS RDS PostgreSQL DB instances of SonarQube

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which versions are you using (SonarQube Server / Community Build, Scanner, Plugin, and any relevant extension) - SonarQube Server version v2025.4.2

how is SonarQube deployed: zip, Docker, Helm - running on EKS node
Installed via Helm Chart

what are you trying to achieve - Trying to enable SSl encryption for the RDS being used for SonarQube

what have you tried so far to achieve this - Need to know once we implement the SSL value as true in DB
rds.force_ssl=1 (current config is rds.force_ssl=0), do we need to update our JDBC url in sonar.properties
something like this - sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://:5432/<database_name>?sslmode=require&ssl=true

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Yes, you should update your JDBC URL in sonar.properties to include ?sslmode=require (e.g., sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://your-rds-endpoint:5432/yourdatabase?sslmode=require) when enabling RDS SSL. ssl=true is redundant if sslmode=require is set.

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Thanks, let me try this

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We are using helm to deploy SonarQube. Is there any value which we need to include in our helm values file to implement that change.

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Hi,

The docs should help.

 
Ann

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I checked my Helm file> I hope the below way should work

jdbc:postgresql://rdsname:portnumber/bc_shrd_0022_shr_01?socketTimeout=1500**&sslmode=require"**