K8s Clean Cluster

Force-clean all Kurtosis resources from a Kubernetes cluster when the normal kurtosis clean -a command hangs or fails.

When to use

• kurtosis clean -a hangs for more than a few minutes
• Orphaned kurtosis namespaces remain after a failed clean
• remove-dir-pod-* pods are stuck in Pending state
• Engine start fails because old resources exist

Steps

1. Kill any running kurtosis processes

pkill -f "kurtosis gateway" 2>/dev/null
pkill -f "kurtosis clean" 2>/dev/null