FastAPI & PostgreSQL

This sample project demonstrates how to deploy FastAPI with PostgreSQL with Defang.

Prerequisites

1. Download Defang CLI
2. (optional) If you are using Defang BYOC, make sure you have properly authenticated your AWS account.

Development

To run the development container(s) locally, do:

docker compose -f compose.dev.yaml up --build

Or to run the production container(s) locally, do:

POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres docker compose up --build

Configuration

For this sample, you will need to provide the following configuration:

Note that if you are using the 1-click deploy option, you can set these values as secrets in your GitHub repository and the action will automatically deploy them for you.

POSTGRES_PASSWORD

defang config set POSTGRES_PASSWORD

Deployment

Note

Download Defang CLI

Defang Playground

Deploy your application to the Defang Playground by opening up your terminal and typing:

defang compose up

BYOC (AWS)

If you want to deploy to your own cloud account, you can use Defang BYOC:

1. Authenticate your AWS account, and check that you have properly set your environment variables like AWS_PROFILE, AWS_REGION, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.
2. Run in a terminal that has access to your AWS environment variables:

   defang --provider=aws compose up

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Title: FastAPI & PostgreSQL

Short Description: A sample project with FastAPI and PostgreSQL.

Tags: FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Python, SQL

Languages: python