While I’m trying to build and run the SonarQube and Postges in docker containers, the sonarQube couldn’t start and run the container, when looked at the logs output using the command below,

docker container logs sonarqube

2023.08.16 18:37:14 ERROR web[][o.s.s.p.PlatformImpl] Web server startup failed
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Fail to connect to database

After analysed the above error, the SonarQube required the database from the postgresql so need to create a new database name in Postgres:

login to the postgresql docker container and create a new database,

docker container exec -it postgresql bash

the command to enter into the “postgres: psql -U sonar” then create a new database, “CREATE DATABASE sonarqube;”

root@935985532e0d:/# psql -U sonar

psql (12.16 (Debian 12.16-1.pgdg110+1))
Type "help" for help.

sonar=# CREATE DATABASE sonarqube;

once created a new database in postgres then start the sonarqube docker container.