Capture Heroku SIGTERM in Celery workers to shutdown worker gracefully
celery was unfortunately not designed to do clean shutdown. EVER. I mean it. celery workers respond to SIGTERM but if a task is incomplete, the worker processes will wait to finish the task and only then exit. In which case, you can send it SIGKILL if the workers don't shut down in a reasonable time but there will be a loss of information in this case i.e. you may not know which jobs remained incomplete.