Celery is able to run asyncronous tasks provided by AlekSIS, e.g. sending of notifications or backing up AlekSIS database and media.
Celery and Celery beat worker
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To run asyncronous Celery tasks, you will need a running Celery and Celery beat worker on your system. You can find instructions to run them via systemd in the `Celery docs`_
Enable celery in AlekSIS Configuration
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To enable Celery in your AlekSIS instance, add the following to your ``/etc/aleksis/aleksis.toml``::
[default.celery]
enabled = true
Celery with redis
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Redis is a key-value database very similar to memecache. Redis provides natvie support for atomically querying and manipulating lists and sets.
Install redis server
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On Debian you just have to intall the ``redis-server`` package::
sudo apt install redis-server
After you've installed the redis server, you should start it. If you're using systemd you can do this like this::
sudo service redis-server start
For other operating systems please look into their package index.
Enable redis in AlekSIS Configuration
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To enable the Celery broker in your AlekSIS instance, add the following to your ``/etc/aleksis/aleksis.toml``::
