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Tutorial

Welcome to the FastAPI Maintenance tutorial! This section will guide you through:

  • Installing the package
  • Setting up your first maintenance mode middleware
  • Configuring maintenance mode backends
  • Using the decorators and context managers
  • Customizing maintenance responses
  • Advanced use cases

Follow along step-by-step to learn how to implement maintenance mode in your FastAPI applications. We recommend starting with the installation guide and proceeding through each section in order.

What You'll Learn

By the end of this tutorial, you'll understand how to:

  • Set up and configure maintenance mode middleware in your FastAPI application
  • Use different storage backends for maintenance state
  • Control maintenance mode behavior with route decorators and context managers
  • Create custom maintenance responses and exemptions for specific requests
  • Implement advanced patterns like content negotiation and template-based responses
  • Integrate maintenance mode with other middleware and application lifecycle events
  • Follow best practices for API availability management during maintenance
  • Use the command line interface (CLI) to manage maintenance mode

Let's begin with the installation guide.