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Remove a Kubernetes namespace blocked with Terminating status

  • September 24, 2020
  • 2 min read
Florent Appointaire
Cloud and Virtualization Architect and Microsoft MVP. Florent specializes in public, private, and hybrid cloud ecosystems. An MCSE in Private Cloud, he provides technical leadership in Cloud and Datacenter Management. Florent delivers high-authority insights on Azure deployments, virtualization strategy, and optimizing enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure.
Cloud and Virtualization Architect and Microsoft MVP. Florent specializes in public, private, and hybrid cloud ecosystems. An MCSE in Private Cloud, he provides technical leadership in Cloud and Datacenter Management. Florent delivers high-authority insights on Azure deployments, virtualization strategy, and optimizing enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure.

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Today, I tried to remove a namespace in Kubernetes, and after few minutes, it was blocked with Terminating status:

Terminating status

I searched on internet, and found this topic on Github:

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/60807#issuecomment-572615776

So, I executed the following command:

kubectl get namespace "namespacetodelete" -o json | tr -d "\n" | sed "s/\"finalizers\": \[[^]]\+\]/\"finalizers\": []/" | kubectl replace --raw /api/v1/namespaces/namespacetodelete/finalize -f -

wp-image-15145Namespace has been removed:

I can now deploy namespace with the same name, without any problems.

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