diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/defaults/main.yml b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/defaults/main.yml
index bb8c064e30f..7f5a5979dc4 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/defaults/main.yml
@@ -173,6 +173,12 @@ EDXAPP_CELERY_BROKER_VHOST: ""
 EDXAPP_CELERY_BROKER_USE_SSL: false
 EDXAPP_CELERY_EVENT_QUEUE_TTL: !!null
 EDXAPP_CELERY_TIMEZONE: "UTC"
+EDXAPP_CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULER: "celery.beat:PersistentScheduler"
+EDXAPP_ENABLE_CELERY_BEAT: false
+EDXAPP_SINGLE_BEAT_LOCK_TIME: 60
+# EDXAPP_SINGLE_BEAT_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL must be smaller than EDXAPP_SINGLE_BEAT_LOCK_TIME / 2
+EDXAPP_SINGLE_BEAT_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL: 29
+EDXAPP_SINGLE_BEAT_VERSION: "0.4.2"
 EDXAPP_BRANCH_IO_KEY: ""
 
 EDXAPP_AUTH_USE_OPENID_PROVIDER: true
@@ -1409,6 +1415,7 @@ generic_env_config:  &edxapp_generic_env
       LOCATION: "{{ EDXAPP_CACHE_COURSE_STRUCTURE_MEMCACHE }}"
       # Default to two hours
       TIMEOUT: "7200"
+  CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULER: "{{ EDXAPP_CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULER }}"
   CELERY_BROKER_TRANSPORT: "{{ EDXAPP_CELERY_BROKER_TRANSPORT }}"
   CELERY_BROKER_HOSTNAME: "{{ EDXAPP_CELERY_BROKER_HOSTNAME }}"
   COMMENTS_SERVICE_URL: "{{ EDXAPP_COMMENTS_SERVICE_URL }}"
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml
index cad02e4cb73..e51271a6fd6 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml
@@ -357,6 +357,7 @@
   with_items:
     - "lms.sh"
     - "cms.sh"
+    - "beat_scheduler.sh"
     - "worker.sh"
     - "reload_lms_config.sh"
     - "reload_cms_config.sh"
@@ -370,6 +371,18 @@
   when:
     - celery_worker is not defined
 
+- name: install single-beat to run only one celerybeat scheduler
+  pip:
+    name: single-beat
+    version: "{{ EDXAPP_SINGLE_BEAT_VERSION|default(omit) }}"
+    virtualenv: "{{ edxapp_venv_dir }}"
+    state: present
+  become_user: "{{ edxapp_user }}"
+  when: EDXAPP_ENABLE_CELERY_BEAT
+  tags:
+    - install
+    - install:app-requirements
+
 # creates the supervisor jobs for the
 # service variants configured, runs
 # gather_assets and db migrations
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/beat_scheduler.sh.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/beat_scheduler.sh.j2
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..acf54f89058
--- /dev/null
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/beat_scheduler.sh.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# {{ ansible_managed }}
+
+{% set edxapp_venv_bin = edxapp_venv_dir + "/bin" %}
+source {{ edxapp_app_dir }}/edxapp_env
+{% if COMMON_ENABLE_NEWRELIC_APP %}
+{% set executable = edxapp_venv_bin + '/newrelic-admin run-program ' + edxapp_venv_bin + '/single-beat ' + edxapp_venv_bin + '/celery beat' %}
+
+export NEW_RELIC_CONFIG_FILE="{{ edxapp_app_dir }}/newrelic.ini"
+if command -v ec2metadata >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  INSTANCEID=$(ec2metadata --instance-id);
+  HOSTNAME=$(hostname)
+  export NEW_RELIC_PROCESS_HOST_DISPLAY_NAME="$HOSTNAME-$INSTANCEID"
+fi
+{% else %}
+{% set executable = edxapp_venv_bin + '/single-beat' + edxapp_venv_bin + '/celery beat' %}
+{% endif %}
+
+# We exec so that celery is the child of supervisor and can be managed properly
+
+exec {{ executable }} $@
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/supervisor/conf.d.available/workers.conf.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/supervisor/conf.d.available/workers.conf.j2
index 949d3e1b81e..7165d51760f 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/supervisor/conf.d.available/workers.conf.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/supervisor/conf.d.available/workers.conf.j2
@@ -20,3 +20,38 @@ autorestart=true
 
 [group:edxapp_worker]
 programs={%- for w in edxapp_workers %}{{ w.service_variant }}_{{ w.queue }}_{{ w.concurrency }}{%- if not loop.last %},{%- endif %}{%- endfor %}
+
+
+{% if EDXAPP_ENABLE_CELERY_BEAT|bool and EDXAPP_CELERY_BROKER_TRANSPORT == "redis"  %}
+[program:celerybeat_scheduler]
+environment=
+    {% if COMMON_ENABLE_NEWRELIC_APP %}
+    NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME={{ EDXAPP_NEWRELIC_WORKERS_APPNAME }}-lms,
+    NEW_RELIC_DISTRIBUTED_TRACING_ENABLED={{ EDXAPP_WORKERS_ENABLE_NEWRELIC_DISTRIBUTED_TRACING }},
+    NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY={{ NEWRELIC_LICENSE_KEY }},
+    {% endif -%}
+    LANG={{ EDXAPP_LANG }},
+    PYTHONPATH={{ edxapp_code_dir }},
+    SERVICE_VARIANT=lms,
+    BOTO_CONFIG="{{ edxapp_app_dir }}/.boto",
+    EDX_REST_API_CLIENT_NAME=edx.lms.core.default,
+    SINGLE_BEAT_LOCK_TIME={{ EDXAPP_SINGLE_BEAT_LOCK_TIME }},
+    SINGLE_BEAT_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL={{ EDXAPP_SINGLE_BEAT_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL }},
+    SINGLE_BEAT_IDENTIFIER="celerybeat",
+    SINGLE_BEAT_REDIS_SERVER="redis://{{ EDXAPP_CELERY_BROKER_HOSTNAME }}/{{ EDXAPP_CELERY_BROKER_VHOST }}",
+    SINGLE_BEAT_WAIT_MODE="supervised"
+user={{ common_web_user }}
+directory={{ edxapp_code_dir }}
+stdout_logfile={{ supervisor_log_dir }}/%(program_name)s-stdout.log
+stderr_logfile={{ supervisor_log_dir }}/%(program_name)s-stderr.log
+
+command={{ edxapp_app_dir }}/beat_scheduler.sh --config=lms.envs.{{ worker_django_settings_module }} --loglevel=info --schedule="{{ supervisor_log_dir }}/celerybeat-schedule" --pidfile="{{ supervisor_log_dir }}/celerybeat.pid"
+
+killasgroup=true
+stopwaitsecs={{ EDXAPP_WORKER_DEFAULT_STOPWAITSECS }}
+; Set autorestart to `true`. The default value for autorestart is `unexpected`, but celery < 4.x will exit
+; with an exit code of zero for certain types of unrecoverable errors, so we must make sure that the workers
+; are auto restarted even when exiting with code 0.
+; The Celery bug was reported in https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/2024, and is fixed in Celery 4.0.0.
+autorestart=true
+{% endif %}