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Remove a Kubernetes namespace blocked with Terminating status

September 24, 2020
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Florent Appointaire

Cloud and Virtualization Architect. Florent is specializing in public, hybrid, and private cloud technologies. He is a Microsoft MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management and an MCSE in Private Cloud.

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

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

Namespace has been removed:

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

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