Running Flower on Dotcloud

Flower is a web based tool for monitoring and administrating Celery clusters.

Augmenting your project to use Flower is easy:

1. Clone this repository to your project root:

   $ git clone https://github.com/johncosta/flower-on-dotcloud flower
   

2. Remove the hidden git repository:

   $ rm -rf flower/.git
   

3. Add flower to your dotcloud.yml file:

   flower:
       type: python-worker
       approot: flower
       ports:
           flower: http
       processes:
           flower: flower --port=$PORT_FLOWER --broker=$DOTCLOUD_DATA_REDIS_URL/0
   

Note

Your environment variables for your redis broker might be slightly different. Also double check your database id.