Celery worker

I have a Django app running on one machine and a Celery worker on another.

The Django app uploads files to a folder, and I need to access these files from the Celery task.

How can I do this? Can files on one machine be accessed from another?

Solution

I found a workaround for this: I upload the file and save its contents in a BinaryField in the database. Then I call the Celery task that reads this record, gets the field contents, processes it, and then deletes the record (as I only need the content and not the file itself).

Thank you very much for the response.

Mr. Laverna Jacobson OP•1/21/26, 2:54 PM

Can we access files in a machine from another?

Hi… No, those are disjoint filesystems.

Tigris sounds promising for this kind of thing, although I haven’t tried it myself yet.

(Basically, Django would write to that shared object store, instead of creating a file locally.)

Hope this helps a little!

Aside: A worked example of Celery + Tigris might make a nice addition to Fly’s Python blog.

Prince Warren Heidenreich•1/21/26, 2:54 PM

Thank you very much for the response.