diff --git a/docs/examples/custom-trait/README.md b/docs/examples/custom-trait/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2557b6c68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/custom-trait/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+# How to use
+
+1. define a stateful component with StatefulSet as output
+
+```shell
+$ vela def apply stateful.cue
+ComponentDefinition test-stateful created in namespace vela-system.
+```
+
+2. define a custom trait with patch volume
+
+```shell
+$ vela def apply volume-trait.cue
+TraitDefinition storageclass created in namespace vela-system.
+```
+
+3. You can validate it by:
+```
+$ vela def vet volume-trait.cue 
+Validation succeed.
+```
+
+
+
+4. try dry run your app:
+```
+vela dry-run -f app.yaml 
+```
+
+```yaml
+# Application(website) -- Component(custom-component)
+---
+
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: StatefulSet
+metadata:
+  annotations: {}
+  labels:
+    app.oam.dev/appRevision: ""
+    app.oam.dev/component: custom-component
+    app.oam.dev/name: website
+    app.oam.dev/namespace: default
+    app.oam.dev/resourceType: WORKLOAD
+    workload.oam.dev/type: test-stateful
+  name: custom-component
+  namespace: default
+spec:
+  minReadySeconds: 10
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: custom-component
+  serviceName: custom-component
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: custom-component
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: nginx:latest
+        name: nginx
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 80
+          name: web
+        volumeMounts:
+        - mountPath: /usr/share/nginx/html
+          name: test
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
+  volumeClaimTemplates:
+  - metadata:
+      name: test
+    spec:
+      accessModes:
+      - ReadWriteOnce
+      resources:
+        requests:
+          storage: 10Gi
+      storageClassName: cbs
+
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  annotations: {}
+  labels:
+    app: custom-component
+    app.oam.dev/appRevision: ""
+    app.oam.dev/component: custom-component
+    app.oam.dev/name: website
+    app.oam.dev/namespace: default
+    app.oam.dev/resourceType: TRAIT
+    trait.oam.dev/resource: web
+    trait.oam.dev/type: AuxiliaryWorkload
+  name: custom-component
+  namespace: default
+spec:
+  clusterIP: None
+  ports:
+  - name: web
+    port: 80
+  selector:
+    app: custom-component
+```
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diff --git a/docs/examples/custom-trait/app.yaml b/docs/examples/custom-trait/app.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e18f1c4ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/custom-trait/app.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: website
+  namespace: default
+spec:
+  components:
+    - name: custom-component
+      type: test-stateful
+      properties:
+        image: nginx:latest
+        replicas: 1
+      traits:
+        - type: storageclass
+          properties:
+            volumeClaimTemplates:
+              - name: test
+                requests: 10Gi
+                storageClassName: cbs
+                mountPath: /usr/share/nginx/html
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/examples/custom-trait/stateful.cue b/docs/examples/custom-trait/stateful.cue
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cea6e8dc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/custom-trait/stateful.cue
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+"test-stateful": {
+	annotations: {}
+	attributes: workload: definition: {
+		apiVersion: "apps/v1"
+		kind:       "StatefulSet"
+	}
+	description: "StatefulSet component."
+	labels: {}
+	type: "component"
+}
+
+template: {
+	output: {
+		apiVersion: "apps/v1"
+		kind:       "StatefulSet"
+		metadata: name: context.name
+		spec: {
+			selector: matchLabels: app: context.name
+			minReadySeconds: 10
+			replicas:        parameter.replicas
+			serviceName:     context.name
+			template: {
+				metadata: labels: app: context.name
+				spec: {
+					containers: [{
+						name: "nginx"
+						ports: [{
+							name:          "web"
+							containerPort: 80
+						}]
+						image: parameter.image
+					}]
+					terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	outputs: web: {
+		apiVersion: "v1"
+		kind:       "Service"
+		metadata: {
+			name: context.name
+			labels: app: context.name
+		}
+		spec: {
+			clusterIP: "None"
+			ports: [{
+				name: "web"
+				port: 80
+			}]
+			selector: app: context.name
+		}
+	}
+	parameter: {
+		image:    string
+		replicas: int
+	}
+}
diff --git a/docs/examples/custom-trait/volume-trait.cue b/docs/examples/custom-trait/volume-trait.cue
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7061e1cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/custom-trait/volume-trait.cue
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+storageclass: {
+	type: "trait"
+	annotations: {}
+	labels: {}
+	description: "Add storageclass on K8s pod for your workload which follows the pod spec in path 'spec.template'."
+	attributes: {
+		appliesToWorkloads: ["*"]
+	}
+}
+template: {
+
+	volumeClaimTemplatesList: *[
+					for v in parameter.volumeClaimTemplates {
+			{
+				metadata: name: v.name
+				spec: {
+					accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
+					resources: requests: storage: v.requests
+					storageClassName: v.storageClassName
+				}
+			}
+		},
+	] | []
+
+	volumeClaimTemplateVolumeMountsList: *[
+						for v in parameter.volumeClaimTemplates {
+			{
+				name:      v.name
+				mountPath: v.mountPath
+			}
+		},
+	] | []
+
+	patch: {
+		// +patchKey=name
+		spec: {
+			template: spec: {
+				containers: [...{
+					// +patchKey=name
+					volumeMounts: volumeClaimTemplateVolumeMountsList
+				}]
+			}
+			// +patchKey=name
+			volumeClaimTemplates: volumeClaimTemplatesList
+		}
+	}
+
+	parameter: {
+		volumeClaimTemplates?: [...{
+			name:             string
+			requests:         string
+			storageClassName: string
+			mountPath:        string
+		}]
+	}
+}
diff --git a/pkg/apiserver/rest/usecase/application.go b/pkg/apiserver/rest/usecase/application.go
index c5104c38d..d36a8f9f6 100644
--- a/pkg/apiserver/rest/usecase/application.go
+++ b/pkg/apiserver/rest/usecase/application.go
@@ -1657,7 +1657,7 @@ func dryRunApplication(ctx context.Context, app *v1beta1.Application) (bytes.Buf
 	if err != nil {
 		return buff, err
 	}
-	dryRunOpt := dryrun.NewDryRunOption(newClient, dm, pd, objs)
+	dryRunOpt := dryrun.NewDryRunOption(newClient, config, dm, pd, objs)
 	comps, err := dryRunOpt.ExecuteDryRun(ctx, app)
 	if err != nil {
 		return buff, errors.New("generate OAM objects")
@@ -1735,7 +1735,7 @@ func compare(ctx context.Context, newApp *v1beta1.Application, oldApp *v1beta1.A
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, buff, err
 	}
-	liveDiffOption := dryrun.NewLiveDiffOption(client, dm, pd, objs)
+	liveDiffOption := dryrun.NewLiveDiffOption(client, config, dm, pd, objs)
 	diffResult, err := liveDiffOption.DiffApps(ctx, newApp, oldApp)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, buff, err
diff --git a/pkg/cue/definition/template.go b/pkg/cue/definition/template.go
index 25cd82fd0..26cbb128d 100644
--- a/pkg/cue/definition/template.go
+++ b/pkg/cue/definition/template.go
@@ -353,7 +353,6 @@ func (td *traitDef) Complete(ctx process.Context, abstractTemplate string, param
 		if err := base.Unify(p, sets.CreateUnifyOptionsForPatcher(patcher)...); err != nil {
 			return errors.WithMessagef(err, "invalid patch trait %s into workload", td.name)
 		}
-
 		for _, auxiliary := range auxiliaries {
 			target := patcher.Lookup("context", model.OutputsFieldName, auxiliary.Name)
 			if target.Exists() {
diff --git a/references/appfile/dryrun/diff.go b/references/appfile/dryrun/diff.go
index b52992bfd..20eaaf3ad 100644
--- a/references/appfile/dryrun/diff.go
+++ b/references/appfile/dryrun/diff.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/aryann/difflib"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"k8s.io/client-go/rest"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
 
@@ -35,9 +36,9 @@ import (
 )
 
 // NewLiveDiffOption creates a live-diff option
-func NewLiveDiffOption(c client.Client, dm discoverymapper.DiscoveryMapper, pd *packages.PackageDiscover, as []oam.Object) *LiveDiffOption {
+func NewLiveDiffOption(c client.Client, cfg *rest.Config, dm discoverymapper.DiscoveryMapper, pd *packages.PackageDiscover, as []oam.Object) *LiveDiffOption {
 	parser := appfile.NewApplicationParser(c, dm, pd)
-	return &LiveDiffOption{DryRun: NewDryRunOption(c, dm, pd, as), Parser: parser}
+	return &LiveDiffOption{DryRun: NewDryRunOption(c, cfg, dm, pd, as), Parser: parser}
 }
 
 // ManifestKind enums the kind of OAM objects
diff --git a/references/appfile/dryrun/dryrun.go b/references/appfile/dryrun/dryrun.go
index f319f1f53..f4e404c23 100644
--- a/references/appfile/dryrun/dryrun.go
+++ b/references/appfile/dryrun/dryrun.go
@@ -18,10 +18,20 @@ package dryrun
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
+	"k8s.io/client-go/discovery"
+	"k8s.io/client-go/rest"
+	"k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/util/openapi"
+	"k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/util/openapi/validation"
+	kval "k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/validation"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/yaml"
 
 	"github.com/oam-dev/kubevela/apis/core.oam.dev/v1beta1"
 	"github.com/oam-dev/kubevela/apis/types"
@@ -38,8 +48,8 @@ type DryRun interface {
 }
 
 // NewDryRunOption creates a dry-run option
-func NewDryRunOption(c client.Client, dm discoverymapper.DiscoveryMapper, pd *packages.PackageDiscover, as []oam.Object) *Option {
-	return &Option{c, dm, pd, as}
+func NewDryRunOption(c client.Client, cfg *rest.Config, dm discoverymapper.DiscoveryMapper, pd *packages.PackageDiscover, as []oam.Object) *Option {
+	return &Option{c, dm, pd, cfg, as}
 }
 
 // Option contains options to execute dry-run
@@ -47,12 +57,67 @@ type Option struct {
 	Client          client.Client
 	DiscoveryMapper discoverymapper.DiscoveryMapper
 	PackageDiscover *packages.PackageDiscover
+
+	cfg *rest.Config
 	// Auxiliaries are capability definitions used to parse application.
 	// DryRun will use capabilities in Auxiliaries as higher priority than
 	// getting one from cluster.
 	Auxiliaries []oam.Object
 }
 
+// validateObjectFromFile will read file into Unstructured object
+func (d *Option) validateObjectFromFile(filename string) (*unstructured.Unstructured, error) {
+	fileContent, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Clean(filename))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	fileType := filepath.Ext(filename)
+	switch fileType {
+	case ".yaml", ".yml":
+		fileContent, err = yaml.YAMLToJSON(fileContent)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
+	dc, err := discovery.NewDiscoveryClientForConfig(d.cfg)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	openAPIGetter := openapi.NewOpenAPIGetter(dc)
+	resources, err := openapi.NewOpenAPIParser(openAPIGetter).Parse()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	valids := kval.ConjunctiveSchema{validation.NewSchemaValidation(resources), kval.NoDoubleKeySchema{}}
+	if err = valids.ValidateBytes(fileContent); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	app := new(unstructured.Unstructured)
+	err = json.Unmarshal(fileContent, app)
+	return app, err
+}
+
+// ValidateApp will validate app with client schema check and server side dry-run
+func (d *Option) ValidateApp(ctx context.Context, filename string) error {
+	app, err := d.validateObjectFromFile(filename)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	app2 := app.DeepCopy()
+
+	err = d.Client.Get(ctx, client.ObjectKey{Namespace: app.GetNamespace(), Name: app.GetName()}, app2)
+	if err == nil {
+		app.SetResourceVersion(app2.GetResourceVersion())
+		return d.Client.Update(ctx, app, client.DryRunAll)
+	}
+	return d.Client.Create(ctx, app, client.DryRunAll)
+}
+
 // ExecuteDryRun simulates applying an application into cluster and returns rendered
 // resources but not persist them into cluster.
 func (d *Option) ExecuteDryRun(ctx context.Context, app *v1beta1.Application) ([]*types.ComponentManifest, error) {
diff --git a/references/appfile/dryrun/suit_test.go b/references/appfile/dryrun/suit_test.go
index a66addb53..17665b827 100644
--- a/references/appfile/dryrun/suit_test.go
+++ b/references/appfile/dryrun/suit_test.go
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ var _ = BeforeSuite(func(done Done) {
 	tdMyScaler, err := oamutil.Object2Unstructured(myscalerDef)
 	Expect(err).Should(BeNil())
 
-	dryrunOpt = NewDryRunOption(k8sClient, dm, pd, []oam.Object{cdMyWorker, tdMyIngress, tdMyScaler})
+	dryrunOpt = NewDryRunOption(k8sClient, cfg, dm, pd, []oam.Object{cdMyWorker, tdMyIngress, tdMyScaler})
 	diffOpt = &LiveDiffOption{DryRun: dryrunOpt, Parser: appfile.NewApplicationParser(k8sClient, dm, pd)}
 
 	close(done)
diff --git a/references/appfile/dryrun/testdata/invalid-app-format.yaml b/references/appfile/dryrun/testdata/invalid-app-format.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3f1ae3d77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/references/appfile/dryrun/testdata/invalid-app-format.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: website
+  namespace: default
+spec:
+  components:
+    - name: custom-component
+      type: test-stateful
+      properties:
+        image: nginx:latest
+        replicas: 1
+  traits:
+    - type: storageclass
+      properties:
+        volumeClaimTemplates:
+          - name: test
+            requests: 10Gi
+            storageClassName: cbs
+            mountPath: /usr/share/nginx/html
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/references/cli/dryrun.go b/references/cli/dryrun.go
index e9922509d..27adc095a 100644
--- a/references/cli/dryrun.go
+++ b/references/cli/dryrun.go
@@ -107,13 +107,19 @@ func DryRunApplication(cmdOption *DryRunCmdOptions, c common.Args, namespace str
 		return buff, err
 	}
 
+	dryRunOpt := dryrun.NewDryRunOption(newClient, config, dm, pd, objs)
+	ctx := oamutil.SetNamespaceInCtx(context.Background(), namespace)
+
+	err = dryRunOpt.ValidateApp(ctx, cmdOption.ApplicationFile)
+	if err != nil {
+		return buff, errors.WithMessagef(err, "validate application: %s by dry-run", cmdOption.ApplicationFile)
+	}
+
 	app, err := readApplicationFromFile(cmdOption.ApplicationFile)
 	if err != nil {
 		return buff, errors.WithMessagef(err, "read application file: %s", cmdOption.ApplicationFile)
 	}
 
-	dryRunOpt := dryrun.NewDryRunOption(newClient, dm, pd, objs)
-	ctx := oamutil.SetNamespaceInCtx(context.Background(), namespace)
 	comps, err := dryRunOpt.ExecuteDryRun(ctx, app)
 	if err != nil {
 		return buff, errors.WithMessage(err, "generate OAM objects")
diff --git a/references/cli/livediff.go b/references/cli/livediff.go
index 585de656e..4759aae8c 100644
--- a/references/cli/livediff.go
+++ b/references/cli/livediff.go
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ func LiveDiffApplication(cmdOption *LiveDiffCmdOptions, c common.Args, namespace
 		}
 	}
 
-	liveDiffOption := dryrun.NewLiveDiffOption(newClient, dm, pd, objs)
+	liveDiffOption := dryrun.NewLiveDiffOption(newClient, config, dm, pd, objs)
 	diffResult, err := liveDiffOption.Diff(context.Background(), app, appRevision)
 	if err != nil {
 		return buff, errors.WithMessage(err, "cannot calculate diff")