22 Deployment Docker Uvicorn

title: Deployment with Docker and Uvicorn for FastAPI weight: 32 date: 2026-06-28 lastmod: 2026-06-28 description: Deploy FastAPI applications with Docker, uvicorn with Gunicorn workers, Nginx reverse proxy, environment configuration, and production optimization for high traffic. tags: [api-development, fastapi]

Deploy FastAPI with Docker multi-stage builds, uvicorn with Gunicorn process management for production concurrency, Nginx reverse proxy for SSL termination and static file serving, and environment-based configuration.

```dockerfile
FROM python:3.11-slim AS builder
WORKDIR /app
COPY requirements.txt .
RUN pip install --user --no-cache-dirs -r requirements.txt

FROM python:3.11-slim
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=builder /root/.local /root/.local
COPY . .
ENV PATH=/root/.local/bin:$PATH
EXPOSE 8000
CMD ["gunicorn", "-k", "uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker", "-w", "4", "-b", "0.0.0.0:8000", "app.main:app"]

# docker-compose.yml
version: '3.8'
services:
  app:
    build: .
    environment:
      - DATABASE_URL=postgresql+asyncpg://user:pass@db:5432/myapp
      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
  nginx:
    image: nginx:alpine
    ports: ["80:80", "443:443"]
    volumes: ["./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"]
  db:
    image: postgres:15
    environment: [POSTGRES_USER=user, POSTGRES_PASSWORD=pass, POSTGRES_DB=myapp]
  redis:
    image: redis:7-alpine

What's Next

Now learn about OpenAPI docs customization in Building REST APIs with FastAPI.