Example of how to handle background processes with Flask, Celery, and Docker.

Check out the post.

Spin up the containers:

$ docker-compose up -d --build

Open your browser to http://localhost:5004 to view the app or to http://localhost:5556 to view the Flower dashboard.

Trigger a new task:

$ curl http://localhost:5004/tasks -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"type": 0}'

Check the status:

$ curl http://localhost:5004/tasks/<TASK_ID>/

this is a forked repo that I tweaked little bit to ensure one-by-one execution