It is a tool used as quality gate for code review. SonarQube is an open-source Continuous Inspection server. Jenkins here is used to pull the codes from GitLab (in real time, when the code is pushed or merged), build the project codes and push the result to SonarQube for visual interpretation. It is an automation tool that can be used to test and compile your codes, and deploy it to production if build succeeds. Jenkins is an open-source Continuous Integration server. GitLab provides Source Code Management (SCM) functionality similar to GitHub and BitBucket. It can be installed on your servers to host your codes privately.

GitLab is an open-source code hosting platform for collaboration and version control. Continuous Integration Setup with GitLab, Jenkins and SonarQubeīefore we see how to setup the continuous integration (CI), let’s first see the involved components and what roles do they play in our setup here.

At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to view the quality reports of GitLab repository codes at SonarQube by using Jenkins as a Continuous Integrator and sonar-scanner as code analyzer. This tutorial is about continuous integration between GitLab, Jenkins and SonarQube.

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