Periodic task with Celery and Redis as message broker

A simple example of how to use Celery to schedule periodic tasks. It uses Redis as message broker.

Periodic Tasks in Celery

• celery.py = where Celery is initialised
• celeryconfig.py = all the configuration needed
• tasks.py = this example implements a simple task that run every 10 seconds

How to run Celery beat

celery -A periodic_tasks beat -l info

How to run a worker

celery -A periodic_tasks worker -l info

Crontab Tasks in Celery

• celery.py = where Celery is initialised
• celeryconfig.py = all the configuration needed
• tasks.py = this example implements a simple notification system that uses Celery's crontab feature

How to run Celery beat

celery -A crontab_tasks beat -l info

How to run a worker

celery -A crontab_tasks worker -l info