Azure Pipelines

Qodana Scan is an Azure Pipelines task packed inside the Qodana Azure Pipelines extension to scan your code with Qodana.

Usage

Basic configuration

After you've installed the Qodana Azure Pipelines extension to your organization, to configure the Qodana Scan task, edit your azure-pipelines.yml file:

# Start with a minimal pipeline that you can customize to build and deploy your code.
# Add steps that build, run tests, deploy, and more:
# https://aka.ms/yaml

trigger:
  - main

pool:
  vmImage: ubuntu-latest

steps:
  - task: Cache@2  # Not required, but Qodana will open projects with cache faster.
    inputs:
      key: '"$(Build.Repository.Name)" | "$(Build.SourceBranchName)" | "$(Build.SourceVersion)"'
      path: '$(Agent.TempDirectory)/qodana/cache'
      restoreKeys: |
        "$(Build.Repository.Name)" | "$(Build.SourceBranchName)"
        "$(Build.Repository.Name)"
  - task: QodanaScan@2024

Triggering this job depends on the repository type that you are using in Azure Pipelines.

If you use the classic editor to create pipelines, add the Qodana Scan task to the pipeline configuration and then click it. This will open the task configuration as shown below.

The description of these fields is available in the Configuration chapter of this section.

The task can be run on any OS and x86_64/arm64 CPUs, but it requires the agent to have Docker installed. And since most of the Qodana Docker images are Linux-based, the docker daemon must be able to run Linux containers.

Alternatively, you can configure your pipelines using the Classic interface as explained on the Microsoft documentation portal.

Qodana Cloud

To send the results to Qodana Cloud, all you need to do is to specify the QODANA_TOKEN environment variable in the build configuration.

In the Azure Pipelines UI, create the QODANA_TOKEN secret variable and save the project token as its value.
In the Azure pipeline file, add QODANA_TOKEN variable to the env section of the QodanaScan task:

  - task: QodanaScan@2024
    env:
      QODANA_TOKEN: $(QODANA_TOKEN)

After the token is set for analysis, all Qodana Scan job results will be uploaded to your Qodana Cloud project.

SARIF SAST Scans Tab

To display Qodana report summary in Azure DevOps UI in 'Scans' tab, install Microsoft DevLabs’ SARIF SAST Scans Tab extension.

Configuration

You won't probably need other options than args: all other options can be helpful if you are configuring multiple Qodana Scan jobs in one workflow.

YAML option	UI element of the classic editor	Description	Default Value
`args`	Qodana CLI arguments	Additional Qodana CLI `scan` command arguments, split the arguments with commas (`,`), for example `-i,frontend`. Optional.	None
`resultsDir`	Results Directory	Directory to store the analysis results. Optional.	`$(Agent.TempDirectory)/qodana/results`
`uploadResult`	Upload Result	Upload Qodana results as an artifact to the job. Optional.	`false`
`uploadSarif`	Upload SARIF	Upload qodana.sarif.json as an qodana.sarif artifact to the job. Optional.	`true`
`artifactName`	Artifact Name	Specify Qodana results artifact name, used for results uploading. Optional.	`qodana-report`
`cacheDir`	Cache Directory	Directory to store Qodana caches. Optional.	`$(Agent.TempDirectory)/qodana/cache`

Last modified: 15 November 2024