* **Standards-based**: Based on (and fully compatible with) the open standards for APIs: <a href="https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification" class="external-link" target="_blank">OpenAPI</a> (previously known as Swagger) and <a href="https://json-schema.org/" class="external-link" target="_blank">JSON Schema</a>.

So, it was a complete additional system.

It is not very popular or used nowadays.

## OpenAPI

OpenAPI (previously known as Swagger) is the open specification for building APIs (now part of the Linux Foundation).

**FastAPI** is based on **OpenAPI**.

    The new docs will include Pydantic v2 and will use <a href="https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank">SQLModel</a> (which is also based on SQLAlchemy) once it is updated to use Pydantic v2 as well.

**FastAPI** doesn't require you to use a SQL (relational) database.

But you can use any relational database that you want.

## Build a Docker Image for FastAPI

Okay, let's build something now! 🚀

I'll show you how to build a **Docker image** for FastAPI **from scratch**, based on the **official Python** image.

This is what you would want to do in **most cases**, for example:

* Using **Kubernetes** or similar tools
* When running on a **Raspberry Pi**

* **<abbr title="Robust">استوار</abbr>**: ایجاد کدی آماده برای استفاده در محیط پروداکشن و تولید خودکار <abbr title="Interactive documentation">مستندات تعاملی</abbr>

And then the new OpenAPI 3.1.0 was based on the latest version (JSON Schema 2020-12) that included this new field `examples`.

And now this new `examples` field takes precedence over the old single (and custom) `example` field, that is now deprecated.