docs/celery/content.md

Celery

Celery is an open source asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Celery_Task_Queue

How to use this image

start a celery worker (RabbitMQ Broker)

$ docker run --link some-rabbit:rabbit --name some-celery -d celery

check the status of the cluster

$ docker run --link some-rabbit:rabbit --rm celery celery status

start a celery worker (Redis Broker)

$ docker run --link some-redis:redis -e CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis --name some-celery -d celery

check the status of the cluster

$ docker run --link some-redis:redis -e CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis --rm celery celery status