Kubernetes Secret is persisting through deletes
I'm trying to clean up some leftover data from a failed deployment of rabbitmq. As such, I have 3 secrets that were being used by rabbit services that never fully started. Whenever I try to delete these using kubectl delete secret they get recreated with a similar name instantly (even when using --force).
I do not see any services or pods that are using these secrets, so there shouldn't be any reason they are persisting.
Example of what happens when I delete: 
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The reason they wouldn't delete is because they were associated with a service account.
I found this by looking at their yaml files, which mentioned they were for a service account.
I then ran
kubectl get serviceaccountswhich returned a list of accounts that had identical names. After running
kubectl delete serviceaccounts <accountName>The secrets removed themselves.
However, if they do not, you can still get and delete them with
kubectl get secrets
kubectl delete secret <secret name>If you do not see the item in question, you may want to append --all-namespaces to see "all" of them, as by default it looks at the top level of your kubernetes environment.