How to remove Evicted Pods in Kubernetes/Openshift

To remove Evicted Pods from Kubernetes use this command:

kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o json | jq '.items[] | select(.status.reason!=null) | select(.status.reason | contains("Evicted")) | "kubectl delete pods \(.metadata.name) -n \(.metadata.namespace)"' | xargs -n 1 bash -c


To remove Evicted Pods from Openshift use this command:

oc get pods --all-namespaces -o json | jq '.items[] | select(.status.reason!=null) | select(.status.reason | contains("Evicted")) | "oc delete pods \(.metadata.name) -n \(.metadata.namespace)"' | xargs -n 1 bash -c