Delete Openshift Project

• Issue, can’t delete a namespace/project and is stuck in a “Terminating” status

oc delete project fishbone

oc get projects fishbone
NAME       DISPLAY NAME   STATUS
fishbone   Fishbone       Terminating

• Solution
  • Define the namespace/project to delete

  export NAMESPACE=fishbone
  

  
  Cleanup the finalizers section from the namespace definition and define a json file with that
  `shell
   get namespace $NAMESPACE -o=json | jq '.spec = {"finalizers":[]}' > $NAMESPACE.json
  piVersion": "v1",
  ind": "Namespace",
  etadata": {
  nnotations":
  penshift.io/description": "",
  penshift.io/display-name": "Fishbone",
  penshift.io/requester": "system:admin",
  penshift.io/sa.scc.mcs": "s0:c24,c14",
  penshift.io/sa.scc.supplemental-groups": "1000580000/10000",
  penshift.io/sa.scc.uid-range": "1000580000/10000"
  
  reationTimestamp": "2021-02-20T03:29:59Z",
  eletionTimestamp": "2021-02-20T03:31:35Z",
  ame": "fishbone",
  esourceVersion": "270664",
  elfLink": "/api/v1/namespaces/fishbone",
  id": "885c4440-6f05-4e72-a103-28e61705406f"
  
  pec": {
  inalizers": [
  ubernetes"
  
  tatus": {
  onditions": [
  
  hase": "Terminating"
  

  
   Apply the json file from the previous step to delete the finalizers and therefore the deletion of the namespace/project
  `shell
  rl -k -H "authorization: Bearer $(oc whoami --show-token)" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT --data-binary @$NAMESPACE.json $(oc whoami --show-server)/api/v1/namespaces/$NAMESPACE/finalize
  

  
  Verify that the namspace/project has been deleted
  `shell
   get projects $NAMESPACE
  ror from server (NotFound): namespaces "fishbone" not found
  

References:

• Kubernetes Advanced Topics¹
• Kubernetes Namespace Stuck²
• Red Hat article[^3]