Summary
The last chapter has given us the avenue on how to start, deploy, and run a FastAPI microservice application that follows the standards and best practices. It introduces the use of a virtual environment instance to control and manage the installation of modules from the start of the development until the deployment of our applications to Docker containers. The chapter has extensively explained the approaches on how to package, deploy, and run containerized applications. And lastly, the chapter has implemented an NGINX reverse proxy server for the application to build the API Gateway for our specimen.
Right from the start, we have witnessed the simplicity, power, adaptability, and scalability of the FastAPI framework, from creating background processes to rendering data using HTML templates. Its fast execution of API endpoints through its coroutines gives the framework the edge to become one of the most popular Python frameworks in the future. As the community of FastAPI...