Question
You have read about the Sonar Scanner. What is it exactly?
Answer
It is now called the SonarQube Scanner -- not the Sonar Scanner. Source: https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/
"The SonarQube Scanner is recommended as the default launcher to analyze a project with SonarQube." This quote was taken from
https://docs.sonarqube.org/display/SCAN/Analyzing+with+SonarQube+Scanner.