Import celery task without importing dependencies

Question

I have two modules

alpha.py
beta.py

beta.py can only be run on beta.server because it requires a licensed solver than only exists on beta.server.

Within alpha.py, there's a portion of code that calls:

beta_task.apply_async(kwargs={...})

As such, it requires

from beta import beta_task

Which in turn requires the magical proprietary module that is only available on beta.server.

I need to enable alpha_task to run on alpha.server, having the ability to call beta_task without having the beta_task code on the server.

Is this possible?

UPDATE

Also, can I prevent beta.task from running on alpha.server?

Since alpha.py import beta.py, the daemon finds beta.task and listens for tasks of this type:

- ** ---------- [config]
- ** ---------- .> app:         app_app
- ** ---------- .> transport:   asdfasdfasd
- ** ---------- .> results:     adfasdfasdf
- *** --- * --- .> concurrency: 12 (prefork)
-- ******* ----
--- ***** ----- [queues]
 -------------- .> celery           exchange=celery(direct) key=celery

 [tasks]
  . alpha.alpha_task
  . beta.beta_task

Answer 1

I was able to get something like this working in my project by putting each module which needed to be separated in a different project and instantiating a Celery App in each with the same name. I then called the task by name.

# Import the app you created in the celeryconfig.py for your project
from celeryconfig import app

app.send_task('beta.tasks.beta_task', args=[2, 2], kwargs={})

I then can run one project on one server and the other on a different server and they are connected via the broker, but do not actually need to import code from each other.