How do I force delete kubernetes pods?

Question

I have the following pods:

NAME                                                 READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE xxx-myactivities-79f49cdfb4-nwg22                      1/1       Terminating   0          10h xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-6bnwl                          1/1       Terminating   0          1d xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-rpn48                          1/1       Terminating   0          13h xxx-mysearch-6ff9bbb7cb-9qgbb                          1/1       Terminating   0          3d 

I am running the following code to forcefully delete those pods:

# # Clean up dying pods # pods=$( kubectl get pods | grep -v Running | tail -n +2 | awk -F " " '{print $1}' ) for pod in $pods; do     kubectl delete pod $pod --force done 

Here is the output:

pod "xxx-myactivities-79f49cdfb4-nwg22" deleted pod "xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-6bnwl" deleted pod "xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-rpn48" deleted pod "xxx-mysearch-6ff9bbb7cb-9qgbb" deleted 

After cleaning up, those pods still hang around.

NAME                                                 READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE xxx-myactivities-79f49cdfb4-nwg22                      1/1       Terminating   0          10h xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-6bnwl                          1/1       Terminating   0          1d xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-rpn48                          1/1       Terminating   0          13h xxx-mysearch-6ff9bbb7cb-9qgbb                          1/1       Terminating   0          3d 

How do I clean up those pods?

Answer 1

To clean the pods you need to delete their deployments namespace.

First discover that deployments existed:

$ kubectl get deployments --all-namespaces NAME                               READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE chetabahana-web-584b95d576-62ccj   1/1       Running       0          20m tutorial-web-56fbccc56b-wbwjq      1/1       Running       0          1m 

Delete the deployment <NAME>-xxxx like this:

$ kubectl delete deployment <NAME> 

For example to delete tutorial-web-56fbccc56b-wbwjq run:

$ kubectl delete deployment tutorial 

Then all corresponded pods of tutorial-xxxx will terminate by itself.

NAME                               READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE chetabahana-web-584b95d576-62ccj   1/1       Running       0          20m tutorial-web-56fbccc56b-wbwjq      0/1       Terminating   0          1m