In this short blog post, I will show you how to delete a single container pod on Kubernetes using the kubectl command-line utility.
Get Started
The first action I will take to delete a single container is to run the command below and view all my running containers.
kubectl get pods
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Once I have the list of running containers \ pods I will delete a single container using the command below
kubectl delete pod cranky-marmot-redis-client