<p>I tried to delete a <code>ReplicationController</code> with 12 pods and I could see that some of the pods are stuck in <code>Terminating</code> status. </p>

<p>My Kubernetes cluster consists of one control plane node and three worker nodes installed on Ubuntu virtual machines. </p>

<p>What could be the reason for this issue?</p>

<pre><code>NAME        READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE
pod-186o2   1/1       Terminating   0          2h
pod-4b6qc   1/1       Terminating   0          2h
pod-8xl86   1/1       Terminating   0          1h
pod-d6htc   1/1       Terminating   0          1h
pod-vlzov   1/1       Terminating   0          1h
</code></pre>

<p>You can use following command to delete the POD forcefully.</p>

<pre><code>kubectl delete pod &lt;PODNAME&gt; --grace-period=0 --force --namespace &lt;NAMESPACE&gt;
</code></pre>
