Python API to handle storing and retrieving data from a database. API is built with FastAPI, connected to MongoDB. The API and DB each run in their own Docker container.
This guide assumes you have Docker installed previously.
The commands used assume that Docker has sufficient permission to run the commands without the use of sudo.
The commands assume your terminal is in the project root directory.
Docker compose will handle everything as described in docker-compose.yml.
These commands should be run after any changes in order to apply the changes.
Before the containers can run, we must build the images:
docker compose build
Then we can start the containers:
docker compose up -d
The API will now be available at localhost:8000
To view the auto-docs, navigate to localhost:8000/docs where you can view and test the routes directly.
To stop the containers you can run:
docker compose down