This **OpenAPI-specific** `examples` goes in another section in the OpenAPI specification. It goes in the **details for each *path operation***, not inside each JSON Schema.

And Swagger UI has supported this particular `examples` field for a while. So, you can use it to **show** different **examples in the docs UI**.

### Example Tools to Run at Startup { #example-tools-to-run-at-startup }

Some examples of the tools that can do this job are:

* Docker
* Kubernetes
* Docker Compose
* Docker in Swarm Mode
* Systemd
* Supervisor

You just pass it to `Depends` and **FastAPI** knows how to do the rest.

///

## Share `Annotated` dependencies { #share-annotated-dependencies }

In the examples above, you see that there's a tiny bit of **code duplication**.

When you need to use the `common_parameters()` dependency, you have to write the whole parameter with the type annotation and `Depends()`:

```Python

* Convert the copied model to something that can be stored in your DB (for example, using the `jsonable_encoder`).
    * This is comparable to using the model's `.model_dump()` method again, but it makes sure (and converts) the values to data types that can be converted to JSON, for example, `datetime` to `str`.
* Save the data to your DB.
* Return the updated model.

{{if .VisibleFlags}}
FLAGS:
  {{range .VisibleFlags}}{{.}}
  {{end}}{{end}}
EXAMPLES:
  1. Generate format.json.zip containing format.json files for all drives in a distributed MinIO server pool of 32 nodes with 32 drives each.
     {{.Prompt}} {{.HelpName}} http://node{1...32}.example.com/mnt/export{1...32}

`,
}

func fmtGenMain(ctxt *cli.Context) {
	deploymentID := ctxt.String("deployment-id")

But still, it is very powerful, and allows you to declare arbitrarily deeply nested dependency "graphs" (trees).

/// tip

All this might not seem as useful with these simple examples.

But you will see how useful it is in the chapters about **security**.

And you will also see the amounts of code it will save you.

It helps a lot during **development**, but you **shouldn't** use it in **production**.

///

## Deployment Concepts { #deployment-concepts }

These examples run the server program (e.g Uvicorn), starting **a single process**, listening on all the IPs (`0.0.0.0`) on a predefined port (e.g. `80`).

You will learn more about adding extra information later in the docs, when learning to declare examples.

/// warning

Extra keys passed to `Field` will also be present in the resulting OpenAPI schema for your application.
As these keys may not necessarily be part of the OpenAPI specification, some OpenAPI tools, for example [the OpenAPI validator](https://validator.swagger.io/), may not work with your generated schema.

///

## Run the code { #run-the-code }

All the code blocks can be copied and used directly (they are actually tested Python files).

To run any of the examples, copy the code to a file `main.py`, and start `fastapi dev` with:

<div class="termy">

```console
$ <font color="#4E9A06">fastapi</font> dev <u style="text-decoration-style:solid">main.py</u>

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial011_an_py39.py hl[22] *}

/// tip

All this might seem contrived. And it might not be very clear how is it useful yet.

These examples are intentionally simple, but show how it all works.

In the chapters about security, there are utility functions that are implemented in this same way.