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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+import Docker from 'dockerode'
+
+async function main () {
+  // Connect to Docker Engine API
+  console.info('Connecting to Docker Engine API...')
+  const dock = new Docker()
+  await dock.ping()
+  console.info('Connected to Docker Engine API.')
+
+  // Pull latest DB image
+  console.info('Pulling latest DB docker image...')
+  const dbImagePullStream = await dock.pull('ghcr.io/ietf-tools/datatracker-db:latest')
+  await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    dock.modem.followProgress(dbImagePullStream, (err, res) => err ? reject(err) : resolve(res))
+  })
+  console.info('Pulled latest DB docker image successfully.')
+
+  // Terminate existing containers
+  console.info('Terminating DB containers and stopping app containers...')
+  const containers = await dock.listContainers({ all: true })
+  const dbContainersToCreate = []
+  const containersToRestart = []
+  for (const container of containers) {
+    if (
+      container.Names.some(n => n.startsWith('/dt-db-'))
+      ) {
+      console.info(`Terminating DB container ${container.Id}...`)
+      dbContainersToCreate.push(container.Names.find(n => n.startsWith('/dt-db-')).substring(1))
+      const oldContainer = dock.getContainer(container.Id)
+      if (container.State === 'running') {
+        await oldContainer.stop({ t: 5 })
+      }
+      await oldContainer.remove({
+        force: true,
+        v: true
+      })
+    } else if (
+      container.Names.some(n => n.startsWith('/dt-app-')) ||
+      container.Names.some(n => n.startsWith('/dt-celery-')) ||
+      container.Names.some(n => n.startsWith('/dt-beat-'))
+    ) {
+      if (container.State === 'running') {
+        containersToRestart.push(container)
+        console.info(`Stopping app / celery container ${container.Id}...`)
+        await container.stop({ t: 5 })
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  console.info('DB containers have been terminated.')
+
+  // Create DB containers
+  for (const dbContainerName of dbContainersToCreate) {
+    console.info(`Recreating DB docker container... [${dbContainerName}]`)
+    const dbContainer = await dock.createContainer({
+      Image: 'ghcr.io/ietf-tools/datatracker-db:latest',
+      name: dbContainerName,
+      Hostname: dbContainerName,
+      HostConfig: {
+        NetworkMode: 'shared',
+        RestartPolicy: {
+          Name: 'unless-stopped'
+        }
+      }
+    })
+    await dbContainer.start()
+  }
+  console.info('Recreated and started DB docker containers successfully.')
+
+  console.info('Restarting app / celery containers...')
+  for (const appContainer of containersToRestart) {
+    await appContainer.start()
+  }
+  console.info('Done.')
+
+  process.exit(0)
+}
+
+main()