Deployment to Heroku

If you have been able to play with our backend a bit and test it with HTTPie or Insomnia, you will certainly be satisfied with your work, as you will be able to see how your API responds to all the CRUD operations. After all, we were able to complete our first task! Wouldn’t it be great if we could deploy our backend for the world to see?

We will examine deployment options for a FastAPI project later, but I feel that this is a good moment to quickly show how easy the deployment of a FastAPI app to a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) can be. I get motivated and excited like a little kid every time I put something online, so I want to quickly show you how you can deploy this simple API to Heroku.

Heroku is one of the leading container-based platforms for the deployment and management of applications; it has been on the market for quite some time now and it has a free tier (albeit with some limitations that will not be a deal-breaker for our purposes).

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