Python API Development for Platform Tooling
Learn to build production-ready APIs for platform engineering using FastAPI.
Lab Overview
🛠Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 15. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):
- Week 15: Python for Platform Engineering: Part 2 (slug: python-platform-engineering-part-2)
🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.
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
What You'll Learn
Build a FastAPI application with CRUD endpoints and validate requests using Pydantic models
Implement JWT-based authentication and role-based access control to secure API routes
Create async background tasks and understand how FastAPI handles concurrent requests
Produce OpenAPI/Swagger documentation and prepare an API for production deployment
Prerequisites
Python programming basics
Understanding of REST API concepts
Basic database concepts
Technologies Covered
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