GitLab Just-in-Time provisioning mode

The Just-in-Time (JIT) provisioning is the default provisioning mode. User accounts are created in SonarQube when GitLab users log in for the first time. With this mode, you can use the group synchronization and user access restriction features described below.

Group synchronization

Groups are used in SonarQube to manage user permissions.

With the group synchronization:

• The synchronization occurs each time a user logs in to SonarQube with their GitLab credentials.
• If a matching group is found in SonarQube, the GitLab account's memberships in that group are synchronized in SonarQube. The groups match if the SonarQube group name matches the GitLab group URL. For example, the SonarQube group my-gitlab-group/sub-group matches the GitLab group whose URL is https://gitlab.com/my-gitlab-group/sub-group. (The name check is case-sensitive; The default built-in sonar-users group is excluded from the synchronization.) 
• Manually added group memberships of JIT-provisioned users are reset in SonarQube at synchronization time.

User access restriction (Allowed groups)

You can block the sign up of new users with SonarQube. This may be useful if you want to manage the user provisioning through an API.

Starting from the Developer Edition, you can restrict access to SonarQube by defining Allowed groups. An Allowed group is a GitLab root group (a group with no parent): only members of the Allowed group and all its subgroups can authenticate to SonarQube.

Related pages

• Automatic provisioning mode
• Setting up GitLab authentication and provisioning
• Managing the Just-in-Time provisioning mode