Pods stuck while in removing state

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Just in case anybody else comes along, I was able to remove them by first force-removing the pods:

kubectl delete pods/catbot-tunnel-2-798675b7c5-dnw8r --grace-period=0 --force

This did not actually remove them, but instead it caused them to get stuck waiting on a foregroundDeletion event. I used kubectl edit to remove this from their definitions:

finalizers:
- foregroundDeletion

Then they finally died (and hopefully haven’t left any open resources in the system that I’m not aware of).

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