SonarQube 25.x Bash Installer Script (Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04)
Save this script as install-sonarqube-25.sh and run it with sudo bash install-sonarqube-25.sh.
#!/bin/bash set -e echo "==============================" echo " SonarQube 25.x Installer" echo "==============================" SONAR_VERSION="25.11.0.114957" SONAR_ZIP="sonarqube-$SONAR_VERSION.zip" SONAR_URL="https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonarqube/$SONAR_ZIP" SONAR_DIR="/opt/sonarqube" DB_NAME="sonarqube" DB_USER="sonaruser" DB_PASS="StrongPassword123!" # <-- Change if you want echo "[1/12] Updating system..." apt update && apt upgrade -y echo "[2/12] Installing required packages..." apt install -y wget unzip curl git apt-transport-https echo "[3/12] Installing Java 17..." apt install -y openjdk-17-jdk echo "Java installed:" java -version echo "[4/12] Installing PostgreSQL..." apt install -y postgresql postgresql-contrib systemctl enable --now postgresql echo "[5/12] Creating SonarQube database and user..." sudo -u postgres psql <<EOF DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS $DB_NAME; DROP ROLE IF EXISTS $DB_USER; CREATE ROLE $DB_USER WITH LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD '$DB_PASS'; CREATE DATABASE $DB_NAME OWNER $DB_USER ENCODING 'UTF8' LC_COLLATE='C.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE='C.UTF-8'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE $DB_NAME TO $DB_USER; EOF echo "[6/12] Setting Elasticsearch limits..." echo "vm.max_map_count=524288" | tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf echo "fs.file-max=65536" | tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf sysctl -p tee -a /etc/security/limits.conf <<EOF sonar - nofile 65536 sonar - nproc 4096 EOF echo "[7/12] Creating sonar user..." groupadd -f sonar id -u sonar >/dev/null 2>&1 || useradd -c "SonarQube User" -d /opt/sonarqube -g sonar -s /bin/bash sonar echo "[8/12] Downloading SonarQube $SONAR_VERSION..." cd /opt rm -rf $SONAR_ZIP sonarqube-$SONAR_VERSION $SONAR_DIR wget $SONAR_URL unzip $SONAR_ZIP mv sonarqube-$SONAR_VERSION sonarqube chown -R sonar:sonar $SONAR_DIR echo "[9/12] Configuring sonar.properties..." sed -i "s|#sonar.jdbc.username=.*|sonar.jdbc.username=$DB_USER|" $SONAR_DIR/conf/sonar.properties sed -i "s|#sonar.jdbc.password=.*|sonar.jdbc.password=$DB_PASS|" $SONAR_DIR/conf/sonar.properties sed -i "s|#sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql.*|sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/$DB_NAME|" $SONAR_DIR/conf/sonar.properties echo "sonar.web.host=0.0.0.0" >> $SONAR_DIR/conf/sonar.properties echo "[10/12] Creating systemd service..." tee /etc/systemd/system/sonarqube.service > /dev/null <<EOF [Unit] Description=SonarQube 25.x Service After=network.target postgresql.service [Service] Type=forking User=sonar Group=sonar ExecStart=/opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh start ExecStop=/opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh stop Restart=always LimitNOFILE=65536 LimitNPROC=4096 Environment="JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64" [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF echo "[11/12] Starting SonarQube..." systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable sonarqube systemctl start sonarqube sleep 5 echo "[12/12] Checking logs..." tail -n 30 /opt/sonarqube/var/logs/web.log || echo "SonarQube starting, logs not ready yet." echo "=====================================================" echo " SonarQube 25.x Installation Complete!" echo "=====================================================" echo " URL: http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:9000" echo " Login: admin / admin" echo " Database: $DB_NAME" echo " DB User: $DB_USER" echo "====================================================="
