How to route tasks to different queues with Celery and Django

I have got it working, there are few things to note here:

According Celery's 4.2.0 documentation, CELERY_ROUTES should be the variable to define queue routing, but it only works for me using CELERY_TASK_ROUTES instead. The task routing seems to be independent from Celery Beat, therefore this will only work for tasks scheduled manually:

app1_test.delay()
app2_test.delay()

or

app1_test.apply_async()
app2_test.apply_async()

To make it work with Celery Beat, we just need to define the queues explicitly in the CELERY_BEAT_SCHEDULE variable. The final setup of the file my_app/settings.py would be as follows:

CELERY_BROKER_URL = "amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672//"
CELERY_TASK_ROUTES = {
 'app1.tasks.*': {'queue': 'queue1'},
 'app2.tasks.*': {'queue': 'queue2'},
}
CELERY_BEAT_SCHEDULE = {
    'app1_test': {
        'task': 'app1.tasks.app1_test',
        'schedule': 15,
        'options': {'queue': 'queue1'}
    },
    'app2_test': {
        'task': 'app2.tasks.app2_test',
        'schedule': 15,
        'options': {'queue': 'queue2'}
    },

}

And to run Celery listening on those two queues:

celery -A my_app worker -B -l INFO -Q queue1,queue2

Where

• -A: name of the project or app.
• -B: Initiates the task scheduler Celery beat.
• -l: Defines the logging level.
• -Q: Defines the queues handled by this worker.

I hope this saves some time to other developers.

adding queue parameter to the decorator may help you,

@app.task(queue='queue1')
def app1_test():
    print('I am app1_test task!')
    time.sleep(10)