How do I force delete kubernetes pods?

Question

I have the following pods:

NAME                                                 READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE
xxx-myactivities-79f49cdfb4-nwg22                  


        

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

Answer 2

I'm using this:

kubectl get pods | grep part-of-the-pods-name|awk '{split($0,a," "); print a[1]}'|xargs -I {} kubectl delete pods {} --grace-period=0

additional grep can be added if needed.

Answer 3

You have these alternatives:

kubectl delete pod xxx --now 

Or

SSH into the node the stuck pod was scheduled on Running docker ps | grep {pod name} to get the Docker Container ID Running docker rm -f {container id}

Or

kubectl delete pod NAME --grace-period=0 --force

Answer 4

For deleting pod forcefully use this.

kubectl delete pod <Pod_Name> -n <namespace_name> --grace-period=0 --force

OR

kubectl delete pod <Pod_Name> -n <namespace_name> --wait=false

For reference please follow below link. https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/force-delete-stateful-set-pod/

Answer 5

To delete all pods in terminating state with one command do:

for p in $(kubectl get pods | grep Terminating | awk '{print $1}'); do kubectl delete pod $p --grace-period=0 --force;done

Answer 6

kubectl get pod --all-namespaces | awk '{if ($4 != "Running") system ("kubectl -n " $1 " delete pods " $2  " --grace-period=0 " " --force ")}'

you can use this command