Application Development

The Application Development section covers all resources involved in building, packaging, and deploying software in CodeNOW.

Section	Description
Applications	The primary unit of deployment — a collection of Application Components deployed and managed together
Libraries	Reusable code packages built and published to the artifact repository, referenced by Application Components
Containers	Custom Docker base images built and published for use in CI pipelines of other components
Managed Services	Infrastructure services (databases, message brokers, etc.) provisioned and managed directly from CodeNOW
External Services	Externally managed services connected to components via a variable schema defined by External Service Templates
CI/CD	Build and deployment pipelines — build history, deployment tracking, and custom pipeline configuration