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hardkubectl

Force-restart all pods in a namespace by deleting them (deployments recreate them)

command

kubectl delete pods --all -n NAMESPACE

also accepted

kubectl delete pods --all

Command breakdown

Part of the Kubernetes CLI (kubectl) — Pods category.

kubectldeletepods--all-nNAMESPACE

Flag	Purpose
`--all`	Boolean flag
`-n`	Boolean flag

More Pods commands

List all pods in the current namespacekubectl get pods
List all pods across every namespace in the clusterkubectl get pods --all-namespaces
Show detailed information including events and conditions for a specific podkubectl describe pod POD_NAME
Delete a specific pod from the current namespacekubectl delete pod POD_NAME
Open an interactive shell session inside a running pod containerkubectl exec -it POD_NAME -- /bin/sh
Print the stdout logs from a specific pod containerkubectl logs POD_NAME
Forward a local port to a port on a specific pod for debugging accesskubectl port-forward pod/POD_NAME LOCAL_PORT:REMOTE_PORT
Copy files between a pod container and the local filesystemkubectl cp POD_NAME:REMOTE_PATH LOCAL_PATH

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