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Delete all pods not in running state

Category	kubernetes
Added on	2021-03-05
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Force Delete without grace period all pods from the current namespace that are not in the Running state.

⚠ this command is destructive ⚠ this command does not respect pod grace termination period

$ kubectl get pods | ag -v "Running" | tail -n +2 | awk '{print $1;}' | xargs kubectl delete pod --grace-period=0 --force

Explain:

kubectl get pods \              # get all pods from current namespace
  | ag -v "Running" \           # inverse match for "Running"
  | tail -n +2 \                # remove header column
  | awk '{print $1;}' \         # take the first column from results
  | xargs kubectl delete pod \  # forcefully delete all found pods ignoring grace period
    --grace-period=0 --force