Python API Development for Platform Tooling

This comprehensive lab teaches you to build production-ready APIs for platform engineering using FastAPI. You'll cover RESTful API design, authentication, async operations, and infrastructure management endpoints.

You'll learn to:

• Master FastAPI framework for building high-performance APIs
• Design RESTful APIs for infrastructure management
• Implement JWT authentication and role-based access control
• Build CRUD operations for platform resources
• Handle asynchronous operations and background tasks
• Implement comprehensive API documentation with OpenAPI/Swagger
• Create production-ready platform automation APIs

Key Technologies:

• FastAPI - Modern Python web framework
• SQLAlchemy - Database ORM
• Pydantic - Data validation
• JWT - Authentication tokens
• pytest - Testing framework