How to create Celery Windows Service?

Question

I\'m trying to create a Windows Service to launch Celery. I have come across an article that does it using Task Scheduler. However it seems to launch numerous celery instanc

Answer 1

@azalea 's answer helped me a lot, but one thing I like to highlight here is, the service (celery_service.py) needs to be installed with your user/password, otherwise, when you run subprocess.Popen(args) in SvcDoRun() function, nothing will happen as there will be a permission issue. To set the user/password, you can choose one of two methods:

1. Using command line:

   python33 .\celeryService1.py --username .\USERNAME --password PASSWORD
   

2. Go to Computer Management(local) > Services and Applications > Services, find your server (in @azalea's example, it is "Celery Distributed Task Queue Service"), and right click to open Properties page, input "This account" in Log On tab