I have started pods with command
# kubectl run busybox --image=busybox --restart=Never --tty -i --generator=run-pod/v1
Something went wrong, and now I can't delete this pod I tried using below methods but it keeps recreating itself
# kubectl delete pods busybox-na3tm
pod "busybox-na3tm" deleted
# kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
busybox-vlzh3 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 14s
# kubectl delete pod busybox-vlzh3 --grace-period=0
# kubectl delete pods --all
pod "busybox-131cq" deleted
pod "busybox-136x9" deleted
pod "busybox-13f8a" deleted
pod "busybox-13svg" deleted
pod "busybox-1465m" deleted
pod "busybox-14uz1" deleted
pod "busybox-15raj" deleted
pod "busybox-160to" deleted
pod "busybox-16191" deleted
# kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
default busybox-c9rnx 0/1 RunContainerError 0 23s
You need to delete the deployment, which should in turn delete the pods and the replica sets https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/24137
To list all deployments:
kubectl get deployments --all-namespaces
Then to delete the deployment:
kubectl delete -n NAMESPACE deployment DEPLOYMENT
Where NAMESPACE is the namespace it's in, and DEPLOYMENT is the name of the deployment.
In some cases it could also be running due to a job or daemonset. Check the following and run their appropriate delete command.
kubectl get jobs
kubectl get daemonsets.app --all-namespaces
kubectl get daemonsets.extensions --all-namespaces
if your pod has name like name-xxx-yyy, it could be controlled by a replicasets.apps named name-xxx, you should delete that replicaset first before deleting the pod
kubectl delete replicasets.apps name-xxx
In some cases the pods will still not go away even when deleting the deployment. In that case to force delete them you can run the below command.
kubectl delete pods podname --grace-period=0 --force
Instead of trying to figure out whether it is a deployment, deamonset, statefulset... or what (in my case it was a replication controller that kept spanning new pods :) In order to determine what it was that kept spanning up the image I got all the resources with this command:
kubectl get all
Of course you could also get all resources from all namespaces:
kubectl get all --all-namespaces
or define the namespace you would like to inspect:
kubectl get all -n NAMESPACE_NAME
Once I saw that the replication controller was responsible for my trouble I deleted it:
kubectl delete replicationcontroller/CONTROLLER_NAME
Look out for stateful sets as well
kubectl get sts --all-namespaces
to delete all the stateful sets in a namespace
kubectl --namespace <yournamespace> delete sts --all
to delete them one by one
kubectl --namespace ag1 delete sts mssql1
kubectl --namespace ag1 delete sts mssql2
kubectl --namespace ag1 delete sts mssql3
When the pod is recreating automatically even after the deletion of the pod manually, then those pods have been created using the Deployment. When you create a deployment, it automatically creates ReplicaSet and Pods. Depending upon how many replicas of your pod you mentioned in the deployment script, it will create those number of pods initially. When you try to delete any pod manually, it will automatically create those pod again.
Yes, sometimes you need to delete the pods with force. But in this case force command doesn’t work.
This will provide information about all the pods,deployments, services and jobs in the namespace.
kubectl get pods,services, deployments, jobs
pods can either be created by deployments or jobs
kubectl delete job [job_name]
kubectl delete deployment [deployment_name]
If you delete the deployment or job then restart of the pods can be stopped.
Instead of removing NS you can try removing replicaSet
kubectl get rs --all-namespaces
Then delete the replicaSet
kubectl delete rs your_app_name
After taking an interactive tutorial I ended up with a bunch of pods, services, deployments:
me@pooh ~ > kubectl get pods,services
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/kubernetes-bootcamp-5c69669756-lzft5 1/1 Running 0 43s
pod/kubernetes-bootcamp-5c69669756-n947m 1/1 Running 0 43s
pod/kubernetes-bootcamp-5c69669756-s2jhl 1/1 Running 0 43s
pod/kubernetes-bootcamp-5c69669756-v8vd4 1/1 Running 0 43s
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 37s
me@pooh ~ > kubectl get deployments --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE NAME DESIRED CURRENT UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
default kubernetes-bootcamp 4 4 4 4 1h
docker compose 1 1 1 1 1d
docker compose-api 1 1 1 1 1d
kube-system kube-dns 1 1 1 1 1d
To clean up everything, delete --all worked fine:
me@pooh ~ > kubectl delete pods,services,deployments --all
pod "kubernetes-bootcamp-5c69669756-lzft5" deleted
pod "kubernetes-bootcamp-5c69669756-n947m" deleted
pod "kubernetes-bootcamp-5c69669756-s2jhl" deleted
pod "kubernetes-bootcamp-5c69669756-v8vd4" deleted
service "kubernetes" deleted
deployment.extensions "kubernetes-bootcamp" deleted
That left me with (what I think is) an empty Kubernetes cluster:
me@pooh ~ > kubectl get pods,services,deployments
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/kubernetes ClusterIP 10.96.0.1 <none> 443/TCP 8m
If you have a job that continues running, you need to search the job and delete it:
kubectl get job --all-namespaces | grep <name>
and
kubectl delete job <job-name>
You can do kubectl get replicasets check for old deployment based on age or time
Delete old deployment based on time if you want to delete same current running pod of application
kubectl delete replicasets <Name of replicaset>
I also faced the issue, I have used below command to delete deployment.
kubectl delete deployments DEPLOYMENT_NAME
but still pods was recreating, So I crossed check the Replica Set by using below command
kubectl get rs
then edit the replicaset to 1 to 0
kubectl edit rs REPICASET_NAME
The root cause for the question asked was the deployment/job/replicasets spec attribute strategy->type which defines what should happen when the pod will be destroyed (either implicitly or explicitly). In my case, it was Recreate.
As per @nomad's answer, deleting the deployment/job/replicasets is the simple fix to avoid experimenting with deadly combos before messing up the cluster as a novice user.
Try the following commands to understand the behind the scene actions before jumping into debugging :
kubectl get all -A -o name
kubectl get events -A | grep <pod-name>
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40686151/kubernetes-pod-gets-recreated-when-deleted