Minimal example/template of how to start rq workers in docker containers using supervisor.

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• Install docker CE
• Install docker-compose
• Use UNIX-like operating system

RQ is a Python library for queuing jobs and processing them in the background with workers.

See https://python-rq.org/ for full details.

Supervisor is a client/server system that allows control of a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems.

See http://supervisord.org/introduction.html for full details.

Simply run the following:

docker-compose build

docker-compose up

You can verify everything is working by visiting localhost:9181.

You should see something similar to the following: