Asynchronous Tasks With Django and Celery

Table of Contents

• Overview
• What is Celery?
• Setup
  • Step 1: Add celery.py
  • Step 2: Import your new Celery app
  • Step 3: Install Redis as a Celery "Broker"
• Celery Tasks
  • Add the Task
• Periodic Tasks
  • Add the Task
• Running Locally
• Running Remotely
• Final Tips
• Next steps

https://realpython.com/blog/python/asynchronous-tasks-with-django-and-celery/

“Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job #queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.” For this post, we will focus on the scheduling feature to periodically run a job/task.