Simple way to delete existing pods from Python

you can use delete_namespaced_pod(from CoreV1Api) to delete specific pods within a namespace.

Here is an example:

from kubernetes import client, configfrom kubernetes.client.rest import ApiExceptionconfig.load_incluster_config() # or config.load_kube_config()configuration = client.Configuration()with client.ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:    api_instance = client.CoreV1Api(api_client)        namespace = 'kube-system' # str | see @Max Lobur's answer on how to get this    name = 'kindnet-mpkvf' # str | Pod name, e.g. via api_instance.list_namespaced_pod(namespace)        try:        api_response = api_instance.delete_namespaced_pod(name, namespace)        print(api_response)    except ApiException as e:        print("Exception when calling CoreV1Api->delete_namespaced_pod: %s\n" % e)

A continuation to an existing answer by Tibebes. M

How do I find out the namespace that the code itself is running in?

There's two ways to do this:

1. Use Downward API to pass pod namespace to a pod environment variable:
   • https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/environment-variable-expose-pod-information/#the-downward-api
   • https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/downward-api-volume-expose-pod-information/#capabilities-of-the-downward-api See metadata.namespace
2. Use your template engine / helm to additionally pass environment variable namespace to a pod. Example:

            env:         - name: CURRENT_NAMESPACE           value: "{{ .Values.namespace }}"