Pod status is stuck in Terminating state but replicationController and deployment got deleted. To solve this issues, please follow a commands below;

Errors

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-25-244 rajesh]$ kubectl get pods -n=ganesh
NAME             READY   STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE
hello-rc-4mtsv   0/1     Terminating   0          38m
hello-rc-84xtz   1/1     Terminating   0          43m
hello-rc-948gs   1/1     Terminating   0          43m
hello-rc-992lp   1/1     Terminating   0          43m
hello-rc-fdfjs   1/1     Terminating   0          39m

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-25-244 rajesh]$ kubectl get rc -n=ganesh
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Solutions

You can use following command to delete the POD forcefully.

$ kubectl delete pod <PODNAME1> <PODNAME2> <PODNAME3> --grace-period=0 --force --n <NAMESPACE>
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