Hello, 

I am still a bit stuck with my worker. It worked briefly last week, but I suspect that my environment was not consistent. I suppose the source of my problems is my bad understanding of the virtual environment (see also my email last week about python 3.5 and 3.7), and of the "root" path. Today, I cleaned everything and started from scratch (for the 10th time :/). I made some observations that are not clear to me. As a recall, my website uses django and has a celery/redis worker. 

Try 1: following https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Web/Python

So I install the venv using "webservice --backend=kubernetes python3.7 shell", which means using the interactive pod. When I am in the interactive pod, with venv activated, kubectl is not found (bash: kubectl: command not found). The packages are however found, for instance "celery" in the shell returns no error. It is also possible to migrate the app. There is a folder venv/lib/python3.7... There is a celery and a django folder inside. Then if I "exit out of webservice shell" and re-activate the venv. Kubectl is found, but celery sends me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/project/cycling-init-bot/www/python/venv/bin/celery", line 5, in <module>
    from celery.__main__ import main
ImportError: No module named 'celery'

If I go to www/python/src (or don't actually) and try to migrate, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in main
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ImportError: No module named 'django'

The "webservice --backend=kubernetes python3.7 start", works.

So I don't quite understand what are the discrepancies between interactive and normal pod. We install things in one context but then they are not found in the other one... Shall I do something with the PYTHONPATH maybe?

Try 2: without interactive

Now I don't use interactive at all. When typing "python3 -m venv $HOME/www/python/venv". It creates a python3.5 venv (lib/python3.5/). In this case, celery command and migrations works. However by starting the webservice "webservice --backend=kubernetes python3.5 start", I get in uwsgi.logs

*** Operational MODE: preforking ***
mounting /data/project/cycling-init-bot/www/python/src/app.py on /cycling-init-bot
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/project/cycling-init-bot/www/python/src/app.py", line 5, in <module>
    from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'


For try 1 and try 2, the worker didn't start (python image version was adapted/variated, it changed this time nothing). As kubectl logs is empty and the describe deployment gives no information, it is quite difficult to describe what happens. I noticed that https://github.com/Wikidata/editgroups uses a separate venv at the root of the project for celery.

Psemdel