By considering these concepts, you will be able to **evaluate and design** the best way to deploy **your own APIs**.

In the next chapters, I'll give you more **concrete recipes** to deploy FastAPI applications.

* Improve internal typing, declare `Optional` parameters. PR [#1731](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1731) by [@MashhadiNima](https://github.com/MashhadiNima).
* Add external link [Deploy FastAPI on Azure App Service](https://www.tutlinks.com/deploy-fastapi-on-azure/) to docs. PR [#1726](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1726) by [@windson](https://github.com/windson).

In most cases you would (and should) have a "termination proxy" handling HTTPS for you on top, this will depend on how you deploy your application, your provider might do this for you, or you might need to set it up yourself.

!!! tip

        Prefer to use the `Annotated` version if possible.

    ```Python hl_lines="68-69  81"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/websockets/tutorial002.py!}
    ```

!!! info
    As this is a WebSocket it doesn't really make sense to raise an `HTTPException`, instead we raise a `WebSocketException`.

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## Deploy the Container Image

After having a Container (Docker) Image there are several ways to deploy it.

For example:

* With **Docker Compose** in a single server
* With a **Kubernetes** cluster
* With a Docker Swarm Mode cluster

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It is **HIGHLY encouraged** that you write or copy the code, edit it and run it locally.

Using it in your editor is what really shows you the benefits of FastAPI, seeing how little code you have to write, all the type checks, autocompletion, etc.

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## Install FastAPI

The first step is to install FastAPI:

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!!! tip
    A file starting with a dot (`.`) is a hidden file in Unix-like systems, like Linux and macOS.

    But a dotenv file doesn't really have to have that exact filename.

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