How to integrate Sonar Quality Gates with Gitlab-CI

Question

I have a gitlab-ci integration that require a sonar analysis and if the quality gates pass, to build a docker image.

Is this possible using gitlab-ci ?

Answer 1

You should try the Sonar Build Breaker plugin. It enables returning non-zero which would break the Gitlab CI Runner's build, not performing the next step (building the Docker image).

Create a .gitlab-ci.yml file in the root of your project:

stages:
  - sonarqube
  - docker_build
image: maven:3-jdk-8
sonarqube:
  stage: sonarqube
  script:
    - # sonarqube running command (plugin installed), mvn blabla
docker_build
   stage: docker_build
   script:
     - docker build .

A commit to Gitlab will run the sonarqube stage and continue with docker_build only if sonarqube passes the Quality Gate.