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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# For some reason, pods aren't going away after they're marked for deletion. 
+# They're getting stuck as "Terminating" for days at a time, leading to an 
+# accumulation of limitless stale pods.
+#
+# I'm not sure what the cause is, but there are lots of reports of this on
+# Google. 
+#
+# One thing I uncovered (in kubernetes events) that might be related:
+#
+# 22m         Normal    TaintManagerEviction     pod/{name}    Marking for deletion Pod {name}
+#
+# But I honestly don't know what is causing this. Perhaps the fuse filesytem?
+# Perhaps DigitalOcean weirdness?
+#
+# This stop-gap non-solution is taken from https://stackoverflow.com/q/50336665
+#
+pods=$( kubectl -n mumble get pods | grep -v Running | tail -n +2 | awk -F " " '{print $1}' )
+for pod in $pods;
+do
+  echo "Deleting pod ${pod}"
+  kubectl -n mumble delete pod $pod --grace-period=0 --force
+done
+