🚀 FastAPI Docker Stack Overview

A production-ready FastAPI application with Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Nginx reverse proxy. Built for scalable backend development with service isolation and container orchestration.

📦 Features

• ⚡ FastAPI — High-performance Python API framework
• 🐳 Docker & Compose — Containerized architecture
• 🐘 PostgreSQL — Robust SQL database
• 🚀 Redis — In-memory caching and message queuing
• 🌐 Nginx — Reverse proxy for production environments
• 🔧 Developer-friendly — Easy local development and deployment

🏗️ Architecture

The stack implements a modern containerized architecture where:

• FastAPI handles HTTP requests and business logic
• PostgreSQL provides persistent data storage
• Redis enables caching and message queuing
• Nginx serves as a reverse proxy, routing external traffic to the application

🛠️ Service Configuration

Service	Role	Port
web	FastAPI app	6000
db	PostgreSQL database	5432
cache	Redis in-memory store	6379
proxy	Nginx reverse proxy	80 → 6000

📁 Project Structure

🧪 Testing Endpoints and Verification

API Endpoints bash# Root endpoint

curl -v http://localhost/

bash# Redis connection curl -v http://localhost/redis

bash# PostgreSQL connection curl -v http://localhost/postgres

🔒 Security The application's Docker image has been scanned using Docker Scout:

The current scan shows only one high-severity vulnerability, making it relatively secure for most deployment scenarios.

🚀 Quick Start

Clone and Launch

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/Mohamed-Magdy-Dewidar/Fastapi-Docker-Stack.git

cd fastapi-docker-stack

# Start all services
docker-compose up --build