Deployment¶

Deploying aFastAPI application is relatively easy.

What Does Deployment Mean¶

Todeploy an application means to perform the necessary steps to make itavailable to the users.

For aweb API, it normally involves putting it in aremote machine, with aserver program that provides good performance, stability, etc, so that yourusers canaccess the application efficiently and without interruptions or problems.

This is in contrast to thedevelopment stages, where you are constantly changing the code, breaking it and fixing it, stopping and restarting the development server, etc.

Deployment Strategies¶

There are several ways to do it depending on your specific use case and the tools that you use.

You coulddeploy a server yourself using a combination of tools, you could use acloud service that does part of the work for you, or other possible options.

For example, we, the team behind FastAPI, builtFastAPI Cloud, to make deploying FastAPI apps to the cloud as streamlined as possible, with the same developer experience of working with FastAPI.

I will show you some of the main concepts you should probably keep in mind when deploying aFastAPI application (although most of it applies to any other type of web application).

You will see more details to keep in mind and some of the techniques to do it in the next sections. ✨