Although Celery itself is distributed, the cron manager (celery-beat) is not and will not coordinate with other nodes. If you have two nodes running celery-beat

Although Celery itself is distributed, the cron manager (celery-beat) is not and will not coordinate with other nodes. If you have two nodes running celery-beat, you'll get two jobs dispatched every time a cron triggers. imo defeats the whole purpose, at that point I might as well use crontab.