<p>I have a kubernetes cluster on Amazon EKS and from time to time there appear some pods with the state <code>Unknown</code>. I read that this is because my pods have no memory limits set and after changing that no new pods with that state have appeared. But I tried to remove the existing ones using <code>kubectl delete pod &lt;pod_name&gt;</code> and it didn't work. How should I delete them?</p>

Karol Samborski
<p>You can force delete the pod like this:</p>

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