Has anyone faced a scenario where the pod gets evicted from one node(ie Node A) and then is immeditaley scheduled on another node(ie Node B). But the kubelet of Node A keeps complaining about not being able to delete the container of the pod. The container is up & is not killed.
Aug 30 20:29:36 staging-node-4 kubelet[2173]: I0830 20:29:36.358238 2173 kubelet_pods.go:1073] Killing unwanted pod "thanos-compactor-0"
Aug 30 20:29:36 staging-node-4 kubelet[2173]: I0830 20:29:36.362581 2173 kuberuntime_container.go:559] Killing container "docker://b22287cd406c3fe9eff4ff2df1792c6f84b5b92d001359f05ea73f8788715609" with 30 second grace period
Aug 30 20:29:36 staging-node-4 kubelet[2173]: E0830 20:29:36.363416 2173 kuberuntime_container.go:71] Can't make a ref to pod "thanos-compactor-0_thanos(23096418-c7b2-11e9-9be7-005056bc2883)", container thanos: selfLink was empty, can't make reference
Aug 30 20:29:38 staging-node-4 kubelet[2173]: I0830 20:29:38.362191 2173 kubelet_pods.go:1073] Killing unwanted pod "thanos-compactor-0"
Aug 30 20:29:38 staging-node-4 kubelet[2173]: I0830 20:29:38.366884 2173 kuberuntime_container.go:559] Killing container "docker://b22287cd406c3fe9eff4ff2df1792c6f84b5b92d001359f05ea73f8788715609" with 30 second grace period
Aug 30 20:29:38 staging-node-4 kubelet[2173]: E0830 20:29:38.367901 2173 kuberuntime_container.go:71] Can't make a ref to pod "thanos-compactor-0_thanos(23096418-c7b2-11e9-9be7-005056bc2883)", container thanos: selfLink was empty, can't make reference
Aug 30 20:29:38 staging-node-4 kubelet[2173]: I0830 20:29:38.997510 2173 setters.go:72] Using node IP: "172.17.21.146"
Aug 30 20:29:40 staging-node-4 kubelet[2173]: I0830 20:29:40.364388 2173 kubelet_pods.go:1073] Killing unwanted pod "thanos-compactor-0"
Aug 30 20:29:40 staging-node-4 kubelet[2173]: I0830 20:29:40.368226 2173 kuberuntime_container.go:559] Killing container "docker://b22287cd406c3fe9eff4ff2df1792c6f84b5b92d001359f05ea73f8788715609" with 30 second grace period
Aug 30 20:29:40 staging-node-4 kubelet[2173]: E0830 20:29:40.369235 2173 kuberuntime_container.go:71] Can't make a ref to pod "thanos-compactor-0_thanos(23096418-c7b2-11e9-9be7-005056bc2883)", container thanos: selfLink was empty, can't make referenceb22287cd is the docker containerid that is not deleted.
I experienced this issue a few weeks ago. Pods were evicted from a node and sometimes were 'stuck' in terminating state.
Check your pod state by running kubectl -n <NAMESPACE> get pod
Using a kubectl delete pod <PODNAME> --grace-period=0 --force --namespace <NAMESPACE> resolved the problem.