How to run SonarQube for Go code using Jenkins - go

Question

I need to run SonarQube for Go code using Jenkins. Unfortunately, there is little information regarding this task.
I have found that the "sonar-project.properties" file should be created, for example:
sonar.projectKey=com.company.projectkey1
sonar.projectName=My Project Name
sonar.sources=.
sonar.exclusions=**/*_test.go,**/vendor/**
sonar.tests=.
sonar.test.inclusions=**/*_test.go
sonar.test.exclusions=**/vendor/**
But how to configure a Jenkins pipeline correctly? I found the following example, but I'm not sure if this is what I need
node {
stage('SCM') {
git '<my_path>.git'
}
stage('SonarQube analysis') {
def scannerHome = tool 'SonarScanner 4.0';
withSonarQubeEnv('My SonarQube Server') {
sh "${scannerHome}/bin/sonar-scanner"
}
}
}

Answer 1

Yes, that is correct.
In your Jenkins pipeline you just need to run sonnar-scanner - that is no different from other languages (see https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/analysis/scan/sonarscanner-for-jenkins/). Go language plugin comes with SonarQube so no need to install anything. Scanner will then pickup project configuration from sonar-project.properties in your project root and perform the analysis.
Your sonar-project.properties file seems like a copied example from SonarQube for Go page - you might want to do some adjustments depending on project layout (e.g. add sonar.inclusions=**/.*go). SonarQube should detect files are in Go automatically but you can also add sonar.language=go to that file to force it.
You don't mention if you run SonarQube locally or in cluster mode - but there should be little or no difference (probably adding server url and login to sonar-project.properties in case of cluster installation).
Note that go needs to be installed on scanner machines.