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Python API Development for Platform Tooling

Learn to build production-ready APIs for platform engineering using FastAPI.

720 minutes
platform-engineering
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Lab Overview

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

Prerequisites

Python programming basics

Understanding of REST API concepts

Basic database concepts

Technologies Covered

pythonfastapiapi-developmentrest-apiauthenticationasync-programmingplatform-engineering

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This lab is part of the Platform Engineering Bootcamp course

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