Celery - schedule periodic tasks starting at a specific time

Question

What is the best way to schedule a periodic task starting at specific datetime?

(I\'m not using cron for this considering I\'ve the need to schedule about a hundred

Answer 1

I've recently worked on a task that involved Celery, and I had to use it for asynchronous operation as well as scheduled tasks. Suffice to say I resorted back to the old crontab for the scheduled task, although it calls a python script that spawns a separate asynchronous task. This way I have less to maintain for the crontab (to make the Celery scheduler run there needs some further setup), but I am making full use of Celery's asynchronous capabilities.