DevOps transformation: the cornerstone of modern development
Poor quality code is the curse of modern DevOps, hindering the benefits that DevOps aims to bring. Sonar is an essential part of DevOps that helps reduce rework and rollbacks while improving the quality of releases and development velocity.
Why your DevOps Transformation isn’t performing as expected
According to a recent DevOps Trends Survey, only an alarming 49% of organizations implementing DevOps were able to get to market faster. This was because issues at the code level resulted in poor-quality output, slowing down the entire DevOps journey and allowing nonconforming code to reach production.
Many organizations tend to rely on testing alone to catch coding errors. However, these tests are insufficient to detect issues and vulnerabilities that impede DevOps. Without proper early analysis and detection, errors become costly and time-consuming to rectify in later stages of the software development lifecycle, while also disrupting the DevOps process.
Build better code, faster, in your DevOps workflow
Integrating static analysis into your DevOps workflow helps you build better code, faster. Sonar finds issues early in the development process, allowing you to fix them efficiently.
You get immediate feedback in your editor with SonarQube for IDE, while SonarQube (self-managed) or SonarQube Cloud (SaaS) integrates into the CI stage to ensure only high-quality code reaches production. This approach helps you improve code quality as you write and builds a best practice for your team's entire development process.
Benefits of DevOps transformation
Reduce rework
Quality is built into the development flow and is prioritized, leading to fewer coding issues during application QA testing or in the field.
Improved maintainability
When code meets industry standards and best practices, it results in a high-quality codebase that’s easy for any developer to navigate.
Smoother releases
Rigorous quality checks during development, before code is promoted to production result in fewer bugs and vulnerabilities being introduced.
Reliability assurance
Code that doesn’t meet organizational established quality standards is automatically rejected, preserving the integrity of production-ready code.
Sonar is the essential DevOps automation tool
Sonar analyzes your codebase quickly and accurately, giving you vital information to proactively fix any problems. Correct issues from the moment code is written in the developer’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with SonarQube for IDE and utilize SonarQube Server or SonarQube Cloud in the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline to prevent issues from reaching production.
Quality Gates
Fail the build pipeline when the quality of code does not meet defined requirements and standards and prevent problems from being merged or deployed
Quality profiles
Allow organizations to use default rules or customize their rules from project to project and from language to language.
Comprehensive coverage
(30+ languages, 5000+ rules to detect all issue types) and integration into popular DevOps platforms (in-cloud and on-prem) along with easy integration with CI/CD systems.
Connected mode
While in connected mode, developers are notified in the IDE when their code isn’t meeting the quality standards set in SonarQube Server and SonarQube Cloud.
"Sonar helps us streamline our code reviews and improves the quality of overall code."
Lee DaviesDevOps Tech Lead
"Sonar helps us streamline our code reviews and improves the quality of overall code."
Lee DaviesDevOps Tech Lead
