Building a REST API using FastAPI and Docker

Requirements

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Python 3.10+

Installation

Do only the first time

$ docker-compose build

Running the Docker containers

$ docker-compose up

Test server

to check the project our Docker container's URL, visit http://127.0.0.1/items/5?q=somequery We will see something like:

{ "item_id": 5, "q": "somequery" }

Documentation

Automatic interactive API documentation (Swagger UI)

To see the automatic interactive API documentation (provided by Swagger UI) visit http://127.0.0.1/docs

Alternative automatic documentation (ReDoc)

Go to http://127.0.0.1/redoc

You will see the alternative automatic documentation (provided by ReDoc)