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

But for now, let's check these important **conceptual ideas**. These concepts also apply to any other type of web API. 💡

## Security - HTTPS

!!! danger
    Never store user's plaintext passwords. Always store a "secure hash" that you can then verify.

    If you don't know, you will learn what a "password hash" is in the [security chapters](security/simple-oauth2.md#password-hashing){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## Multiple models

Here's a general idea of how the models could look like with their password fields and the places where they are used:

You will see examples of this in the next chapters, about relational and NoSQL databases, security, etc.

## **FastAPI** compatibility

The simplicity of the dependency injection system makes **FastAPI** compatible with:

* all the relational databases

    In particular, when running on **Kubernetes** you will probably **not** want to use Gunicorn and instead run **a single Uvicorn process per container**, but I'll tell you about it later in that chapter.

## Gunicorn with Uvicorn Workers

# Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer

Now let's build from the previous chapter and add the missing parts to have a complete security flow.

## Get the `username` and `password`

We are going to use **FastAPI** security utilities to get the `username` and `password`.

OAuth2 specifies that when using the "password flow" (that we are using) the client/user must send a `username` and `password` fields as form data.

   *
   * <p><i>Notes:</i> This is an implementation of the algorithm for Lexicographical Permutations
   * Generation, described in Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming", Volume 4, Chapter 7,
   * Section 7.2.1.2. The iteration order follows the lexicographical order. This means that the
   * first permutation will be in ascending order, and the last will be in descending order.
   *

   *
   * <p><i>Notes:</i> This is an implementation of the algorithm for Lexicographical Permutations
   * Generation, described in Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming", Volume 4, Chapter 7,
   * Section 7.2.1.2. The iteration order follows the lexicographical order. This means that the
   * first permutation will be in ascending order, and the last will be in descending order.
   *

That defines the metadata about the main response of a *path operation*.

You can also declare additional responses with their models, status codes, etc.

There's a whole chapter here in the documentation about it, you can read it at [Additional Responses in OpenAPI](additional-responses.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## OpenAPI Extra

This code is something you can actually use in your application, save the password hashes in your database, etc.

We are going to start from where we left in the previous chapter and increment it.

## About JWT

JWT means "JSON Web Tokens".

It's a standard to codify a JSON object in a long dense string without spaces. It looks like this:

```

But even if you never use **FastAPI**, you would benefit from learning a bit about them.

!!! note
    If you are a Python expert, and you already know everything about type hints, skip to the next chapter.

## Motivation

Let's start with a simple example:

```Python
{!../../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial001.py!}
```

Calling this program outputs:

```
John Doe
```