Deploy with Gunicorn + UvicornWorker, Nginx reverse proxy, and Docker container.
Deploying FastAPI
# Install
pip install uvicorn[standard] gunicorn
# Development
uvicorn main:app --reload --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000
# Production
gunicorn main:app -w 4 -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker -b 0.0.0.0:8000
# Nginx
server {
listen 80;
server_name api.myapp.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}
}
# Dockerfile
FROM python:3.12-slim
WORKDIR /app
COPY requirements.txt .
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
COPY . .
EXPOSE 8000
CMD ["uvicorn","main:app","--host","0.0.0.0","--port","8000","--workers","4"]
# docker-compose.yml
services:
api:
build: .
ports: ["8000:8000"]
env_file: .env
depends_on: [db, redis]
db:
image: postgres:16
environment:
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: secret