sonar-scanner-cli/it/packer

Custom Windows VM image for sonar-scanner-cli Windows ITs

This defines a custom Windows image necessary for the ITs. It contains all build tools helpers, as well as Node JS, which is needed to scan the example projects.

How to build this VM image

This isn’t supposed to be built by hand. We have a special image on our Google Cloud project, called packer-builder-v1. This image gets started up by Cirrus CI in the create_win_vm_task (see ../../.cirrus.yml), and will use Packer to create our custom VM image. The Packer instructions are contained in the sonar-scanner-cli-qa.json file.

Note that this image is rebuilt by Cirrus CI every time the sonar-scanner-cli-qa.json or setup.ps1 files change (see the create_win_vm_task’s skip instruction in ../../.cirrus.yml). If no changes are detected, the build will be skipped, and the previously existing image will be used.

How to debug this VM image

1. Log on to Google Cloud
2. Go to our SonarQube project (sonarqube-team)
3. Under Compute Engine > Images, you should see packer-builder-v1. Start a new VM with this image. This image is pre-configured for using Packer, as well as pushing new VM images to our SonarQube project.
4. Once started, SSH into this VM (you can do this directly via the browser).
5. sudo su to use the root user (which is configured to use the GCE service account). You can now add packer JSON files, and run the packer build command to test your new images. Make sure you remove any test images from GCE.