title: How do I force delete kubernetes pods?
body: <p>I have the following pods:</p>
  
  <pre><code>NAME                                                 READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE
  xxx-myactivities-79f49cdfb4-nwg22                      1/1       Terminating   0          10h
  xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-6bnwl                          1/1       Terminating   0          1d
  xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-rpn48                          1/1       Terminating   0          13h
  xxx-mysearch-6ff9bbb7cb-9qgbb                          1/1       Terminating   0          3d
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am running the following code to forcefully delete those pods:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#
  # Clean up dying pods
  #
  pods=$( kubectl get pods | grep -v Running | tail -n +2 | awk -F " " '{print $1}' )
  for pod in $pods;
  do
      kubectl delete pod $pod --force
  done
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>pod "xxx-myactivities-79f49cdfb4-nwg22" deleted
  pod "xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-6bnwl" deleted
  pod "xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-rpn48" deleted
  pod "xxx-mysearch-6ff9bbb7cb-9qgbb" deleted
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After cleaning up, those pods still hang around.</p>
  
  <pre><code>NAME                                                 READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE
  xxx-myactivities-79f49cdfb4-nwg22                      1/1       Terminating   0          10h
  xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-6bnwl                          1/1       Terminating   0          1d
  xxx-mysearch-55864b5c59-rpn48                          1/1       Terminating   0          13h
  xxx-mysearch-6ff9bbb7cb-9qgbb                          1/1       Terminating   0          3d
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I clean up those pods?</p>