diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ee0a60965..ccc3decc2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -140,12 +140,20 @@ with the broker and backend being RabbitMQ.
 Both RabitMQ and Celery need to be run as services and set up properly, as described in [Celery](http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/brokers/rabbitmq.html#broker-rabbitmq).
 On Debian-based machines RabitMQ may be installed as a service directly from repositories.
 
-To run celery worker use following command:
+To run celery worker as a script please use the following command:
 
 ```
 celery -A celery_worker.celery worker
 ```
 
+For deployment it should be started as a service.
+A major part of configuration will be performed by `setup.sh` automatically but one need to amend configuration file (`celeryd`) so all paths are absolute and correct.
+To start the service use `init.d` script:
+
+```
+/etc/init.d/celeryd {start|stop|restart|status}
+```
+
 ### Serving
 
 #### Serving with Werkzeug
diff --git a/celeryd b/celeryd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8852ffaea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/celeryd
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#CELERYD_LOG_LEVEL="DEBUG"
+
+# Increase if needed
+CELERYD_NODES=1
+
+# Please modify following line to use absolute path to celery executable
+CELERY_BIN="~/virtual_environment/bin/celery"
+
+# App instance to use
+CELERY_APP="celery_worker.celery"
+
+# Please modify following line to use absolute path to website directory
+CELERYD_CHDIR="~/ActiveDriverDB/website"
+
+# Extra command-line arguments to the worker
+CELERYD_OPTS="--time-limit=5000 --concurrency=8"
+
+# %n will be replaced with the first part of the node name
+CELERYD_LOG_FILE="/var/log/celery/%n%I.log"
+CELERYD_PID_FILE="/var/run/celery/%n.pid"
+
+# Workers should run as an unprivileged user
+CELERYD_USER="celery"
+CELERYD_GROUP="celery"
+
+# If enabled pid and log directories will be created if missing
+CELERY_CREATE_DIRS=1
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diff --git a/setup.sh b/setup.sh
index 433849aab..403298861 100644
--- a/setup.sh
+++ b/setup.sh
@@ -47,4 +47,16 @@ sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
 mkdir -p celery
 cd celery
 ssh-keygen -t rsa -f worker.key -N 'Password for testing only'
-cd ..
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+cd ..
+
+# create celery user
+sudo groupadd celery
+sudo useradd -g celery celery
+
+cd website
+echo "Please modify /etc/default/celeryd script to provide absolute paths to celery executable and website dir"
+sudo cp celeryd /etc/default/celeryd
+cd ..
+
+wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/celery/celery/3.1/extra/generic-init.d/celeryd
+sudo mv celeryd /etc/init.d/celeryd
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