Evicted pods are like houseguests who overstayed their welcome. Time to show them the door. 1 2 3 kubectl get pods --all-namespaces --field-selector=status.phase=Failed \ -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.namespace}{" "}{.metadata.name}{"\n"}{end}' | \ while read ns pod; do kubectl delete pod -n $ns $pod; done Or for a specific namespace: 1 kubectl delete pods --field-selector=status.phase=Failed -n