If you already have a **FastAPI Cloud** account (we invited you from the waiting list 😉), you can deploy your application with one command.

Before deploying, make sure you are logged in:

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```console
$ fastapi login

You are logged in to FastAPI Cloud 🚀
```

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/// tip

You could use any other SQL or NoSQL database library you want (in some cases called <abbr title="Object Relational Mapper: a fancy term for a library where some classes represent SQL tables and instances represent rows in those tables">"ORMs"</abbr>), FastAPI doesn't force you to use anything. 😎

///

As SQLModel is based on SQLAlchemy, you can easily use **any database supported** by SQLAlchemy (which makes them also supported by SQLModel), like:

    * **CORS**
    * **Cookie Sessions**
    * ...and more.

### Deploy your app (optional)

You can optionally deploy your FastAPI app to [FastAPI Cloud](https://fastapicloud.com), go and join the waiting list if you haven't. 🚀

If you already have a **FastAPI Cloud** account (we invited you from the waiting list 😉), you can deploy your application with one command.

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```console
$ fastapi deploy

### AI-assisted contributions

If you use AI tools when contributing to Gradle, please review our [AI Policy](AI_POLICY.md).

### Additional help

If you run into any trouble, please reach out to us on the issue you are working on.
There is a `#contributing` channel on the community Slack which you can use
to ask any questions.

## Finding issues to work on

# Sub Applications - Mounts { #sub-applications-mounts }

If you need to have two independent FastAPI applications, with their own independent OpenAPI and their own docs UIs, you can have a main app and "mount" one (or more) sub-application(s).

## Mounting a **FastAPI** application { #mounting-a-fastapi-application }

---> 100%
```

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/// note

When you install with `pip install "fastapi[standard]"` it comes with some default optional standard dependencies, including `fastapi-cloud-cli`, which allows you to deploy to [FastAPI Cloud](https://fastapicloud.com).

If you don't want to have those optional dependencies, you can instead install `pip install fastapi`.

You will see something like this:

<img src="/img/tutorial/security/image01.png">

/// check | Authorize button!

You already have a shiny new "Authorize" button.

And your *path operation* has a little lock in the top-right corner that you can click.

///

### Using your local FastAPI

If you create a Python file that imports and uses FastAPI, and run it with the Python from your local environment, it will use your cloned local FastAPI source code.

And if you update that local FastAPI source code when you run that Python file again, it will use the fresh version of FastAPI you just edited.

That way, you don't have to "install" your local version to be able to test every change.

This is an advanced usage that you might not really need, but it's there in case you do.

## Include an `APIRouter` in another { #include-an-apirouter-in-another }

The same way you can include an `APIRouter` in a `FastAPI` application, you can include an `APIRouter` in another `APIRouter` using:

```Python
router.include_router(other_router)
```

///

...so, you are a [team member of FastAPI](./fastapi-people.md#team)? Wow, you are so cool! 😎

You can help with everything on [Help FastAPI - Get Help](./help-fastapi.md) the same ways as external contributors. But additionally, there are some tasks that only you (as part of the team) can perform.