SonarQube Crowd Connector

Download And Installation

• After purchasing the license, miniOrange will share a download link for the plugin.
• Once downloaded, copy and paste the plugin into <sonarqube_installation>/extensions/plugins folder, and then restart the SonarQube server.

  Steps To Activate The Plugin

• Log into SonarQube as administrator and go to Administration >> Configuration>> General Settings and select the miniOrange SAML from the plugin list.
• Enable the SAML Login toggle, and save the changes.

• Now scroll down to the Customer Details section and enter your email address and the plugin license key received from miniOrange. Save the settings.

 Steps To Configure The Plugin

• To configure the Crowd details, you need to create a new application on Crowd.
Log into Crowd Admin account. Go to Applications from top menu, and click on Add application.
Now choose the Generic Application option from the Application type dropdown, provide a Name, and Password for this application (Please note down the Application name and the password).
Confirm your password and then click on Next button.
Provide the base URL of your SonarQube server, and click Resolve IP Address button. Once the process is done, click on Next button.
On the next screen, select the desired Crowd directory, and click on Next.
Now select the desired groups from the selected directory, or you can also select Allow all users to authenticate checkbox to allow all the groups.
On confirmation page, verify all the details and click on Add application button.
• On the plugin configuration page, scroll to the Crowd Setup section, and configure the below Crowd details.
1. Crowd Base URL
2. Crowd Application Name
3. Crowd Application Password

4. Now you can perform SSO, using Log in with SAML button available on the login page.

Crowd Troubleshooting

Recommended Add-Ons

Additional Resources