Setting up Sonarqube with Ansible

Early last year (2017) I was embarking on a new project for a client and was setting up code quality measurements with Sonarqube when I noticed that our Sonarqube server at work was a bit out of date.

We were running 5.1 which at the time was about 2 years old. It seemed it had been setup a few years ago by an employee that had since left the company and no-one really had enough of an idea of what was going on there to make an upgrade viable.

Fortunately the contract with the client required setting up build infrastructure…