TL;DR overview
- Sonar and HashiCorp have partnered to integrate SonarQube Cloud with Terraform Cloud, automatically analyzing pull requests and returning a pass/fail quality gate directly within the Terraform Cloud pipeline.
- The integration applies the code quality methodology to Terraform HCL, enabling teams to catch infrastructure security issues and code quality problems before any changes are pushed to production.
- SonarQube Cloud supports 30+ languages and technologies in addition to Terraform, making it a single tool for keeping both application code and cloud-native infrastructure free from vulnerabilities.
- Teams adopting this integration reduce pre-deployment manual reviews, accelerate new feature delivery, and free DevSecOps staff to focus on higher-priority security challenges.
Development teams must balance security and compliance constraints with rapid code deployments. Cloud native technologies introduce many new attack planes and vulnerabilities that traditional security practices struggle to address. Pre-deployment, monolithic scans can take hours only to return a hopelessly long list of issues littered with false positives.
To address these challenges, Sonar and HashiCorp have joined forces to provide DevOps teams with self-service tools that automate code quality checks and simplify the code revision process. HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments. As a new member of HashiCorp’s Partner Network, Sonar built a tight integration with Terraform Cloud to ensure Code Quality delivery.
The SonarQube Cloud Run Task integration automatically analyzes pull requests and decorates the TFC pipeline with a Sonar Quality Gate. If it’s green, merge with confidence. A red gate is a blocker and clearly lets you know there are some issues to fix.
The SonarQube Cloud Run Task integration incorporates the Sonar Clean as You Code methodology to ensure DevOps teams catch issues with their HCL sooner rather than later. The Clean as You Code approach enables developers and organizations to optimize the quality of their codebase by focusing on code that's added or changed. This simple yet powerful methodology progressively improves the overall quality of the entire codebase with minimal cost and effort. When teams dedicate less time to addressing old issues or reworking newly created issues, they can accelerate new features, avoid unnecessary rework costs, and foster talent growth and retention.
Failed Sonar Quality Gate in SonarQube Cloud Run Task
This integration brings a lot of benefits to individual developers and their teams so they can consistently deliver clean Terraform projects.
Merge Code Quality
SonarQube Cloud can automatically analyze pull requests and return a Pass/Fail Sonar Quality Gate. It provides you with a clear indicator letting you instantly know if your code is safe to merge. Green means go ahead!
Practice Proactive Security
SonarQube Cloud embodies the Clean as You Code methodology enabling your team to truly shift vulnerability detection to the left without workflow disruption or DevOps re-tooling. With developers helping to shoulder the vulnerability detection workload, valuable DevSecOps staff is now freed to focus on other, underserved security-challenged areas of the business.
Experiment & Grow
It takes time to learn new technologies, especially security best practices. This shouldn’t stop you from exploring and learning about Terraform. On the contrary, with Sonar in your corner, you can really dive in knowing that SonarQube Cloud is a tireless mentor that loves to help you learn from your mistakes.
In addition to keeping your Terraform code clean, SonarQube Cloud supports more than 30 popular and classic languages, frameworks and technologies. SonarQube Cloud is the only tool you need to keep your cloud native infrastructure and applications free from vulnerabilities and code quality issues.
Since its launch in 2018, SonarQube Cloud has helped clean over 2.5 billion lines of code. Over 100,000 users rely on SonarQube Cloud to ensure they only merge Code Quality into their projects. SonarQube Cloud is free to use on open-source projects. To learn more about SonarQube Cloud, visit here.
Clean Terraform Code for the Win!
Join the Code Quality movement, be intentional with the quality of your Terraform code and take pride in delivering cloud native apps in a safe, sustainable way.
Thanks for reading and happy, clean, cloud native coding!
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