Pods stuck in terminating state after deleting ReplicationController

Question

I deleted a replication controller with about 10 pods and after checking with kubectl get pods I can see that some of the pods are staying in terminating status. I've got one master and three nodes in my cluster. Why is this happening?

NAME        READY     STATUS        RESTARTS   AGE
pod-186o2   1/1       Terminating   0          2h
pod-4b6qc   1/1       Terminating   0          2h
pod-8xl86   1/1       Terminating   0          1h
pod-d6htc   1/1       Terminating   0          1h
pod-vlzov   1/1       Terminating   0          1h

Answer 1

Delete the pods by FORCE, You should.<(-.-)>

kubectl delete pod NAME --grace-period=0 --force