Forcefully Delete Kubernetes Pod
Problem
- A pod is stuck in terminating state as per the Kubectl output.
- Deletion of pod fails even after running the command.
Environment
- Platform9 Managed Kubernetes - All Versions
Procedure
- Verify that the container(s) associated with the pod isn't running on the node. This can be verified by identifying the container and the node name using the command below.
- SSH into the node and verify that that the container associated isn't running by running the following command.
- See this article for more details on containerd commands.
$ docker ps
- Once it's verified that the container isn't present, run the following command to delete the pod forcefully.
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