start process in background

[KenWhitesell]

The key paragraph in the thread quoted above are these questions:

@KenWhitesell

You want to consider the complete life-cycle of the process - once it’s started, how long is it going to run? What is going to monitor the status of that process - possibly restarting it if it should fail for some reason? How many instances of these are going to be running? Do you have a way of limiting that number of instances?

If this is going to be something running continuously, I wouldn’t use Celery for that. I’d make it some kind of service.