By piosyn
I want to schedule a weekly task (i.e. saving numbers in the database) in my Django App using Celery. I found a good tutorial how to use celery with Django: https://medium.com/swlh/python-developers-celery-is-a-must-learn-technology-heres-how-to-get-started-578f5d63fab3
but since there are no tutorials on DO regarding how to use workers, I try to assemble the plan for setting it up by myself.
I successfully build the app using basic components (web service and database) and now I want to add Celery to it, but don’t know how to tackle this problem.
Do I need a Redis managed database for it, or will the worker component be enough to schedule weekly task for Django and Celery?
Thank you for your help.
This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.
You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!
For those coming here later. This still remains an issue as of June 9, 2021.
The solution, though somewhat limited, seems to be to run celery not with the multiprocessing pool, but with a gevent pool. I tried this out and was able to get it running and so far, no issues.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/app-platform-multiprocessing-python
Did you ever figure out how to do it? The documentation around workers is severely lacking and I will probably just move to Heroku for this reason
Become a contributor for community
Get paid to write technical tutorials and select a tech-focused charity to receive a matching donation.
DigitalOcean Documentation
Full documentation for every DigitalOcean product.
Resources for startups and AI-native businesses
The Wave has everything you need to know about building a business, from raising funding to marketing your product.
The developer cloud
Scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.
Get started for free
Sign up and get $200 in credit for your first 60 days with DigitalOcean.*
*This promotional offer applies to new accounts only.