I have a periodic task scheduled to run every 10 minutes. Sometimes this task completes in 2-3 minutes, sometimes it takes 20 minutes.
Is there any way using celery beats to not open the task if the previous task hasn't completed yet? I don't see an option for it in the interval settings.
No, Celery Beat knows nothing about the running tasks.
One way to achieve what you are trying to do is to link the task to itself. async_apply() for an example has optional parameter link and link_error which can be used to provide a signature (it can be a single task too) to run if the task finishes successfully (link) or unsuccessfully (link_error).
What I use is the following - I schedule task to run frequently (say every 5 minutes), and I use a distributed lock to make sure I always have only one instance of the task running.
Finally a reminder - you can always implement your own scheduler, and use it in your beat configuration. I was thinking about doing this in the past for exactly the same thing you want, but decided that the solution I already have is good enough for me.