celery has 3,605,952 recorded pulls on Docker Hub.
It ranks #189 of 1,263 tracked Docker Hub listings by pulls.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
About celery
DEPRECATED
This image is officially deprecated in favor of the standard python image, and will receive no further updates after 2017-06-01 (Jun 01, 2017). Please adjust your usage accordingly.
See the discussion in docker-library/celery#1 and docker-library/celery#12 for more details.
In most cases, using this image required re-installation of application dependencies, so for most applications it ends up being much cleaner to simply install Celery in the application container, and run it via a second command.
See the way the sentry image handles running a Celery beat and workers for a concrete example of this pattern being employed (docker run -d --name sentry-cron ... sentry run cron and docker run -d --name sentry-worker-1 ... sentry run worker).
Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links
• 4.0.2, 4.0, 4 (*4.0/Dockerfile*) • 3.1.25, 3.1, 3, latest (*3.1/Dockerfile*)
Quick reference
• Where to get help: the Docker Community Forums, the Docker Community Slack, or Stack Overflow • Where to file issues: https://github.com/docker-library/celery/issues • Maintained by: the Docker Community • Published image artifact details: repo-info repo's repos/celery/ directory (history) (image metadata, transfer size, etc) • Image updates: official-images PRs with label library/celery official-images repo's library/celery file (history) • Source of this description: docs repo's celery/ directory (history) • Supported Docker versions: the latest release (down to 1.6 on a best-effort basis)
Celery
Celery is an open source asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Celery_Task_Queue
How to use this image
start a celery worker (RabbitMQ Broker)
check the status of the cluster
start a celery worker (Redis Broker)
check the status of the cluster
Description from the Docker Hub listing.
Where celery sits in the listing
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Charts
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
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Recent observations
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Data source
Cumulative pull counts and stars come from the public Docker Hub API. Pulls count image downloads (including automated CI pulls), not installs or users.
Listing: https://hub.docker.com/_/celery. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.