How to Deploy

For a complete guide, check out our docs.

Create an account on Porter

Unlike other PaaS options, Porter deploys your applications to your own AWS account. Before deploying a FastAPI application you must set up your infrastructure on AWS first.

First, create an account on Porter. Follow this guide to create the necessary infrastructure on AWS.

Deploying from the dashboard

Once your infrastructure has been provisioned on AWS, you can start deploying your FastAPI application. Take a look here for a more detailed guide.

1. Create a New Application on Porter.
2. Select the Git repository you have forked from the example repo.
3. Add a Web service to the application. There is no need to add a start command, because the Dockerfile in the example repository already has a command specified.
4. Click Deploy.

That's it! You should be able to see your FastAPI server on a Porter URL that ends with onporter.run. Verify that the application has been deployed by going to the /docs page on your application, which will show the auto-generated docs as below: