## Previous Steps Before Starting

There are many cases where you want to perform some steps **before starting** your application.

For example, you might want to run **database migrations**.

But in most cases, you will want to perform these steps only **once**.

So, you will want to have a **single process** to perform those **previous steps**, before starting the application.

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`).

This is the basic idea. But you will probably want to take care of some additional things, like:

* Security - HTTPS
* Running on startup
* Restarts
* Replication (the number of processes running)
* Memory
* Previous steps before starting

You can see it directly at: <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/openapi.json" class="external-link" target="_blank">http://127.0.0.1:8000/openapi.json</a>.

It will show a JSON starting with something like:

```JSON
{
    "openapi": "3.1.0",
    "info": {
        "title": "FastAPI",
        "version": "0.1.0"
    },
    "paths": {
        "/items/": {
            "get": {

!!! tip
    If you know perfectly how imports work, continue to the next section below.

A single dot `.`, like in:

```Python
from .dependencies import get_token_header
```

would mean:

* Starting in the same package that this module (the file `app/routers/items.py`) lives in (the directory `app/routers/`)...
* find the module `dependencies` (an imaginary file at `app/routers/dependencies.py`)...

## 구니콘을 유비콘 워커와 함께 실행하기

설치 후 구니콘 실행하기:

<div class="termy">

```console
$ gunicorn main:app --workers 4 --worker-class uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker --bind 0.0.0.0:80

[19499] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 20.1.0
[19499] [INFO] Listening at: http://0.0.0.0:80 (19499)
[19499] [INFO] Using worker: uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker
[19511] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 19511
[19513] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 19513

For example, if you want to read or manipulate the request body before it is processed by your application.

!!! danger
    This is an "advanced" feature.

    If you are just starting with **FastAPI** you might want to skip this section.

## Use cases

Some use cases include:

In this case, we are creating the tables in the same Python file, but in production, you would probably want to create them with Alembic, integrated with migrations, etc.

Here, this section would run directly, right before starting your **FastAPI** application.

* Create an `engine`.
* Create all the tables from the `metadata` object.

```Python hl_lines="25-28"
{!../../../docs_src/async_sql_databases/tutorial001.py!}
```

* In code blocks within the Markdown document, translate comments (`# a comment`), but leave the rest unchanged.

* Do not change anything enclosed in "``" (inline code).

* In lines starting with `===` or `!!!`, translate only the ` "... Text ..."` part. Leave the rest unchanged.

    cwd = os.getcwd()
    os.chdir(tmp_path)
    test_db = Path("./test.db")
    if test_db.is_file():  # pragma: nocover
        test_db.unlink()
    # Import while creating the client to create the DB after starting the test session
    from docs_src.sql_databases.sql_app_py310.tests import test_sql_app

    # Ensure import side effects are re-executed
    importlib.reload(test_sql_app)
    test_sql_app.test_create_user()

                            "items": {
                                "anyOf": [{"type": "string"}, {"type": "integer"}]
                            },
                        },
                        "msg": {"title": "Message", "type": "string"},
                        "type": {"title": "Error Type", "type": "string"},
                    },
                },
                "HTTPValidationError": {