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Deleting Kubernetes resources

If we've done something wrong with the pod, or it may have broken for some reason, there is a simple way to delete a pod using the kubectl delete pod command:

$ kubectl delete pod httpd-8576c89d7-qjd62pod "httpd-8576c89d7-qjd62" deleted 

We can delete all pods using the --all option:

$ kubectl delete pod --allpod "httpd-8576c89d7-qjd62" deletedpod "httpd1-c9f7d7fd9-rn2nz" deletedpod "httpd2-5b4ff5cf57-vlhb4" deleted

Note that if you run kubectl get pods, you will see all the containers running again. The reason for this is that, when we run the kubectl run command, it creates several different Kubernetes resources, which we are going to discuss in the following section.

We can delete Kubernetes resources by ...