diff --git a/bootstrap/playbooks/celery.yaml b/bootstrap/playbooks/celery.yaml
index 66b3a860..f02da327 100644
--- a/bootstrap/playbooks/celery.yaml
+++ b/bootstrap/playbooks/celery.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     - shell: celery multi stopwait 2  -A solar.orchestration.runner
              chdir={{ celery_dir }}
       tags: [stop]
-    - shell: celery multi start 2 -A solar.orchestration.runner -P gevent -c:2 1000 -c:1 1 -Q:1 scheduler,system_log -Q:2 celery,{{ hostname.stdout }}
+    - shell: celery multi start 2 -A solar.orchestration.runner -P:2 prefork -c:1 1 -c:2 3 -Q:1 scheduler,system_log -Q:2 celery,{{ hostname.stdout }}
              chdir={{ celery_dir }}
       tags: [master]
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 4d499301..cc70bdad 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ solar-celery:
     - /vagrant/resources:/vagrant/resources
     - /vagrant/library:/vagrant/library
     - ~/.ssh/known_hosts:/root/.ssh/known_hosts
+    - ./bootstrap/playbooks/celery.yaml:/celery.yaml
   environment:
     - REDIS_HOST=redis
     - REDIS_PORT=6379
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e4b2c596..f24d026d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ pbr
 pydot
 bunch
 wrapt
-gevent
 # if you want to use riak backend then
 riak
 # if you want to use sql backend then