The domains are securely verified and the certificates are generated automatically. This also allows automating the renewal of these certificates.

And there has to be something in charge of **renewing the HTTPS certificates**, it could be the same component or it could be something different.

### Example Tools for HTTPS { #example-tools-for-https }

Some of the tools you could use as a TLS Termination Proxy are:

* Traefik
    * Automatically handles certificates renewals ✨
* Caddy
    * Automatically handles certificates renewals ✨
* Nginx

- 📞 [Traefik](https://traefik.io) as a reverse proxy / load balancer.
- 🚢 Deployment instructions using Docker Compose, including how to set up a frontend Traefik proxy to handle automatic HTTPS certificates.

	github.com/google/pprof v0.0.0-20250422154841-e1f9c1950416 // indirect
	github.com/google/s2a-go v0.1.9 // indirect
	github.com/google/shlex v0.0.0-20191202100458-e7afc7fbc510 // indirect
	github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy v0.3.6 // indirect
	github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.14.1 // indirect
	github.com/gorilla/mux v1.8.1 // indirect
	github.com/gorilla/websocket v1.5.3 // indirect
	github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.1.0 // indirect

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# Behind a Proxy { #behind-a-proxy }

In many situations, you would use a **proxy** like Traefik or Nginx in front of your FastAPI app.

These proxies could handle HTTPS certificates and other things.

## Proxy Forwarded Headers { #proxy-forwarded-headers }

It could be another container, for example with <a href="https://traefik.io/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Traefik</a>, handling **HTTPS** and **automatic** acquisition of **certificates**.

/// tip

Traefik has integrations with Docker, Kubernetes, and others, so it's very easy to set up and configure HTTPS for your containers with it.

///

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### Docs

* 📝 Add external link: How to Create A Fake Certificate Authority And Generate TLS Certs for FastAPI. PR [#2839](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/2839) by [@aitoehigie](https://github.com/aitoehigie).