The cheap way how to use Docker to deploy your FastAPI
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5 min readOct 6, 2020
FastAPI is a powerful API framework for Python that allows to quickly create and develop APIs in Python. But how to deploy those APIs ?
What is FastAPI?
From the FastAPI website:
FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
What does this mean? It means that FastAPI allows to quickly build and develop APIs with some powerful features:
- OpenAPI for API declaration
- Automatic data model documentation with JSON Schema
- Automatic client code generation in many languages
- Automatic docs with Swagger UI (allows testing the API from the docs) and ReDoc
- Standard Python type declarations, no new syntax needed
- Sensible defaults
- Validations for all Python types, including JSON dict and list, all the way to URL and Email
- Security and Authentication with HTTP Basic, OAuth2 and passing of api keys
Building a quick API with FastAPI
First step is, of course, to install FastAPI with PIP:
