kubectl delete pods code example

Example 1: kubectl delete all pods

kubectl delete --all pods

Example 2: kubectl delete pods

kubectl delete pod podname

Example 3: force delete pod kubernetes

kubectl delete pods <pod> --grace-period=0 --force

Example 4: kubectl delete pods wildcard

$ kubectl get pods -n default --no-headers=true | awk '/web-app/{print $1}'| xargs  kubectl delete -n default podpod "web-app-7fb4f5bff9-8crgx" deletedpod "web-app-7fb4f5bff9-ftzfd" deletedpod "web-app-7fb4f5bff9-rrkt2" deleted