FastAPI and Docker Quick Start

This quick start was modified from:

• awesome-compose/fastapi

• FastAPI in Containers - Docker

Steps to Deploy with docker compose

• From the root folder fastapi, run

docker-compose up -d --build

• List the containers

docker ps

Output:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE         COMMAND       CREATED              STATUS              PORTS                                               NAMES
59329b5986a4   fastapi_api   "/start.sh"   About a minute ago   Up About a minute   80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8000->8000/tcp, :::8000->8000/tcp   fastapi-application

• Navigate to http://localhost:8000 in the web browser to find the following json response:

{
"message": "OK"
}

Destroy ALL

• Stop and remove all running containers:

docker stop $(docker ps -aq)
docker rm $(docker ps -aq)

• To forcefully remove all Docker images

docker rmi --force $(docker images -q)

• Remove all Docker volumes:

docker volume prune