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Deleting an OpenShift project stuck in terminating state

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Recently I faced an issue where one of my projects got stuck in a terminating state for days. The workaround below fixed the problem.

Export OpenShift project as a JSON Object

oc get project delete-me -o json > ns-without-finalizers.json

Replace below from

spec:
  finalizers:
    - kubernetes

to

spec:
  finalizers: []

On one of the master nodes, execute these commands.

kubectl proxy & PID=$!
curl -X PUT http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/delete-me/finalize \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary @ns-without-finalizers.json
kill $PID