kubernetes - Pods stuck in Terminating status

Question

I tried to delete a ReplicationController with 12 pods and I could see that some of the pods are stuck in Terminating status.

My Kubernetes cluster consists of one control plane node and three worker nodes installed on Ubuntu virtual machines.

What could be the reason for this issue?

NAME        READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE
pod-186o2   1/1       Terminating   0          2h
pod-4b6qc   1/1       Terminating   0          2h
pod-8xl86   1/1       Terminating   0          1h
pod-d6htc   1/1       Terminating   0          1h
pod-vlzov   1/1       Terminating   0          1h

Answer 1

You can use following command to delete the POD forcefully.

kubectl delete pod <PODNAME> --grace-period=0 --force --namespace <NAMESPACE>