# FastAPI in Containers - Docker { #fastapi-in-containers-docker }

When deploying FastAPI applications a common approach is to build a **Linux container image**. It's normally done using <a href="https://www.docker.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank">**Docker**</a>. You can then deploy that container image in one of a few possible ways.

Using Linux containers has several advantages including **security**, **replicability**, **simplicity**, and others.

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# WebSockets

When defining WebSockets, you normally declare a parameter of type `WebSocket` and with it you can read data from the client and send data to it.

It is provided directly by Starlette, but you can import it from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import WebSocket
```

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## Security - HTTPS { #security-https }

In the [previous chapter about HTTPS](https.md){.internal-link target=_blank} we learned about how HTTPS provides encryption for your API.

We also saw that HTTPS is normally provided by a component **external** to your application server, a **TLS Termination Proxy**.

## About "Form Fields" { #about-form-fields }

The way HTML forms (`<form></form>`) sends the data to the server normally uses a "special" encoding for that data, it's different from JSON.

**FastAPI** will make sure to read that data from the right place instead of JSON.

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Data from forms is normally encoded using the "media type" `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`.

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And then you can set the `status_code` in that *temporal* response object.

{* ../../docs_src/response_change_status_code/tutorial001_py39.py hl[1,9,12] *}

And then you can return any object you need, as you normally would (a `dict`, a database model, etc).

And if you declared a `response_model`, it will still be used to filter and convert the object you returned.

 * @param <N> The most general node type this builder will support. This is normally {@code Object}
 *     unless it is constrained by using a method like {@link #nodeOrder}, or the builder is
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and can be asserted as desired.

You can change/extend these stubs, and tests should not be breaking too much, since most tests
assert using expected values from the stubs. Normally, when you try to use data from the stubs that
have not been properly populated, you'll get a nullpointer in your test and you then have to
identify which stub creates that specific piece of data.

The most important stubs are:

## What Does Deployment Mean { #what-does-deployment-mean }

To **deploy** an application means to perform the necessary steps to make it **available to the users**.

For a **web API**, it normally involves putting it in a **remote machine**, with a **server program** that provides good performance, stability, etc, so that your **users** can **access** the application efficiently and without interruptions or problems.

 * @param <N> The most general node type this builder will support. This is normally {@code Object}
 *     unless it is constrained by using a method like {@link #nodeOrder}, or the builder is
 *     constructed based on an existing {@code Network} using {@link #from(Network)}.
 * @param <E> The most general edge type this builder will support. This is normally {@code Object}