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# Feature Overview

Workbench provides the following features:

- **Application Management**
  
    - Supports "polyform" cloud native applications in various cloud native scenarios,
      including Kubernetes native applications, Helm apps, and OAM applications.
    - Provides comprehensive lifecycle management for cloud native applications,
      including scaling, logging, monitoring, and application updates.
    - Enables seamless integration with microservice applications based on Spring Cloud,
      Dubbo, and Service Mesh frameworks to achieve effective microservice governance.
      It seamlessly integrates with DCE 5.0's [Microservice Engine](../../skoala/intro/index.md)
      and [Service Mesh](../../mspider/intro/index.md).

- Pipeline Orchestration

    Pipeline is a customizable CI/CD mode.

    - Supports four modes to create pipelines: custom creation, Jenkinsfile-based creation, tempalte-based creation, and create multiple-branch pipelines.
    - Supports editing pipelines with graphical UI.
    - Supports building applications from source code in GitHub repos, Jar packages, Helm charts, or container images.

- Credential Management

    Manages different types of credentials for code repositories and image registries used in a pipeline.

- GitOps

    Introduces the concept of GitOps to achieve continuous deployment of applications, which helps control the application release and deployment process after code building.

    - Based on Argo CD, automates the deployment of applications to production environments frequently and continuously.
    - Provides creation, synchronization, and deletion of Argo CD applications.

- Repository Management

    Supports importing code repositories from Git, allowing you to use them for continuous deployment of applications.

- Canary Release

    Canary release ensures system stability by allowing you to discover and fix bugs during the initial grayscale phase, reducing the impact range of bugs and vulnerabilities.

    - Supports advanced release policies such as Canary release, Blue/Green deployment, and A/B Testing.
    - Canary release supports automated progressive release.
    - Supports quick rollback based on metric analysis.

- Toolchain Integration

    This means you can integrate your favorite DevOps tools as a toolchain, no need to log into multiple platforms and dealing with different views of these tools.