K8s: warn against force delete #1864
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| {{< warning >}} | ||
| Use graceful deletion methods | ||
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| When deleting Redis Enterprise resources or pods, try to avoid use `kubectl delete --force` or similar force deletion commands, as these can lead to: |
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I'm wondering whether we should actually say that, because:
--forceflag doesn't have any effect on custom resources - it doesn't change the deletion behavior. In fact, I'm not aware of any k8s resource besides Pods that support non-graceful deletion. The k8s documentation vaguely say that "only a subset of resources support graceful deletion", but I believe this comes down to... pods only.- Regardless, users don't need to, and typically shouldn't, delete operator-managed resources on their own. They should only delete custom resources that they've created (REC, REDB, ...), and the operator should take care of deleting related/managed resources that it created. Particularly, users shouldn't be deleting REC pods directly.. this typically leads to problems.
Co-authored-by: David Dougherty <david.dougherty@redis.com>
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