Docker healthcheck for Flask app with Celery

September 25, 2018 docker, flask, celery

With docker-compose it can be done the next way

flask_app:
    ...
    healthcheck:
      test: wget --spider --quiet http://localhost:8080/-/health
celery_worker:
    ...
    command: celery worker --app app.celeryapp -n worker@%h --loglevel INFO
    healthcheck:
      test: celery inspect ping --app app.celeryapp -d worker@$$HOSTNAME

Where /-/health is just a simple route

@app.route("/-/health")
def health():
    return 'ok'

Update:
A better Celery ping for Docker healthcheck