Kubernetes has a ton of pods in error state that can't seem to be cleared

Question

I was originally trying to run a Job that seemed to get stuck in a CrashBackoffLoop. Here was the service file:

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name:         


        

Answer 1

The solution was as @johnharris85 mentioned in the comment. I had to manually delete all the pods. To do that I ran the following:

kubectl get pods -w | tee all-pods.txt

That dumped all my pods, then to filter and delete on only what I wanted.

kubectl delete pod $(more all-pods.txt | grep es-setup-index | awk '{print $1}')

Note: I had about 9292 pods, it took about 1-2 hours to delete them all.