Microsoft Azure Static IP & DNS Configuration for SonarQube

3 min readJan 3, 2023

Azure-Static IP-DNS-Helm-Kubernetes

Using Static IP for SonarQube

az aks show --resource-group <AKS_RG_NAME> --name <AKS_NAME> --query nodeResourceGroup -o tsv

az network public-ip create --resource-group <nodeResourceGroup> --name myAKSPublicIPForIngress --sku Standard --allocation-method static --query publicIp.ipAddress -o tsvkubectl create namespace ingress-nginx
helm repo add ingress-nginx https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx
helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
helm repo update
helm show values ingress-nginx/ingress-nginxhelm install ingress-nginx ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx \
    --namespace ingress-nginx \
    --set controller.replicaCount=2 \
    --set controller.nodeSelector."beta\.kubernetes\.io/os"=linux \
    --set defaultBackend.nodeSelector."beta\.kubernetes\.io/os"=linux \
    --set controller.service.externalTrafficPolicy=Local \
    --set controller.service.loadBalancerIP="<STATIC_IP>"kubectl get service -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ingress-nginx --namespace ingress-nginxkubectl get pods -n ingress-nginx
kubectl get all -n ingress-nginx

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: sonarqube-ingress
  namespace: sast
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "false"
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  rules:
  - http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: sonarqube-service
            port:
              number: 9000

kubectl create -f ingress.yaml

SonarQube can be accessed using a static IP address.

Using DNS for SonarQube

az network public-ip create --resource-group <nodeResourceGroup> --name myAKSPublicIPForIngress --sku Standard --dns-name  <DNS_NAME> --location westeurope --allocation-method static --query publicIp.ipAddress -o tsv

kubectl create namespace ingress-nginx
helm repo add ingress-nginx https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx
helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
helm repo update
helm show values ingress-nginx/ingress-nginxhelm install ingress-nginx ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx \
    --namespace ingress-nginx \
    --set controller.replicaCount=2 \
    --set controller.nodeSelector."beta\.kubernetes\.io/os"=linux \
    --set defaultBackend.nodeSelector."beta\.kubernetes\.io/os"=linux \
    --set controller.service.externalTrafficPolicy=Local \
    --set controller.service.loadBalancerIP="<STATIC_IP>"kubectl get service -l app.kubernetes.io/name=ingress-nginx --namespace ingress-nginxkubectl get pods -n ingress-nginxkubectl get all -n ingress-nginx

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: sonarqube-ingress
  namespace: sast
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "false"
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  rules:
  - host: <DNS_NAME>.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: sonarqube-service
            port:
              number: 9000