# 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" means adding a completely "independent" application in a specific path, that then takes care of handling everything under that path, with the _path operations_ declared in that sub-application.

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      # Enable Istio agent to handle DNS requests for known hosts
      # Unknown hosts will automatically be resolved using upstream dns servers in resolv.conf

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from starlette.exceptions import WebSocketException as StarletteWebSocketException
from typing_extensions import Annotated, Doc


class HTTPException(StarletteHTTPException):
    """
    An HTTP exception you can raise in your own code to show errors to the client.

    This is for client errors, invalid authentication, invalid data, etc. Not for server
    errors in your code.

    Read more about it in the

So, even with the code above that doesn't use Pydantic explicitly, FastAPI is using Pydantic to convert those standard dataclasses to Pydantic's own flavor of dataclasses.

And of course, it supports the same:

* data validation
* data serialization
* data documentation, etc.