How to delete or kill PODs hanging in Terminating state

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • PODs hanging or stuck in Terminating state.

  • Pods stuck in "Terminating" state in spite of using --force along with --grace-period and setting {"finalizers":null}.

    $ oc patch pod -n apic-project testubi-apiconnect-62pv9 -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}'
 The Pod "testubi-apiconnect-62pv9" is invalid: spec.initContainers: Forbidden: pod updates may not add or remove containers

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)
    • 3.6 or later (for finalizer error messages)
    • 4
  • Attempting to delete a POD or deploy a new version

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