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Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI
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Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI

by Alireza Parandeh
April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
530 pages
12h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 8. Authentication and Authorization

So far, you’ve built GenAI services that can interact with databases, stream model responses, and handle concurrent users.

Your services are now up and running, but since they’re not protected from attackers or malicious users, deploying them to production may prove problematic.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to secure your services with an authentication layer and implement authorization guards to protect sensitive resources from nonprivileged users.

To achieve this, we’re going to explore various authentication and authorization patterns then implement JWT and identity-based authentication with role-based access control.

Authentication and Authorization

Before talking about authentication methods, let’s briefly clarify that authentication and authorization are two separate concepts ...

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