django-celery

This example shows how to create Django application with Celery.

The prerequisites of using the starter example are the following:

Development Environment

Enter the project directory, e.g.

$ cd django-celery

Create a Python virtual environment,

$ python -m venv .venv

Activate the virtual environment,

$ source .venv/bin/activate

For your IDE, point the Python interpreter to this .venv.

Build docker images,

$ docker compose build

Up dev environment,

$ docker compose up

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ for app development.

Celery worker broker is using Redis.

Use Celery flower to monitor the worker, queue and job status.

Enter the app container,

$ docker-compose exec app bash

After entered into the container, then create a superuser for local development.

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

Then use the credentials to login to the admin page,

Django celery results extension has been installed, and has db migration, you can check the tables on Admin panel.

Celery result: 127.0.0.1:8000/admin/django_celery_results/taskresult/.