Integrating SonarQube with Jenkins for Continuous Code Quality Analysis

Every CI/CD pipeline has a code quality gate. Without it, you are shipping code that might compile and deploy successfully but is full of bugs, security vulnerabilities, duplicated logic, and poor practices. SonarQube is the tool that fills this gap. It scans your source code, measures its quality, and reports back everything a team needs to know before approving a deployment. In this post, we will set up SonarQube on a dedicated EC2 instance, integrate it with Jenkins, and add a code quality analysis stage to our pipeline.