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+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+# This script should be run manually to forcefully evict statefulset
+# pods from a failed control node. Statefulset pods in kubernetes are not
+# evicted automatically if a node goes down. Those pods would go to
+# an 'unknown' status.
+
+INITIAL_WAIT=${INITIAL_WAIT:-300}
+LOOP_WAIT=${LOOP_WAIT:-10}
+
+if [[ -z "${1}" ]]; then
+    echo "ERROR: Failed control plane node name is not provided"
+    echo "Please provide an argument with the name of the failed control plane node"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+failed_cp_node=$1
+
+node_present=$(kubectl get nodes -l control-plane=enabled | grep "${failed_cp_node}" || true)
+
+if [[ -z "${node_present}" ]]; then
+    echo "The node name provided is incorrect."
+    echo "Please provide the name of failed control plane node."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# The idea here is to find out the names of the statefulset pod that is running on the provided
+# failed control plane node and invoke a force delete action.
+
+for ns in $(kubectl get ns | awk '{print $1}');do
+  for ss in $(kubectl get statefulset -n "${ns}" --ignore-not-found --no-headers | \
+    awk '{print $1}');do
+      label=$(kubectl -n "${ns}" get statefulset "${ss}" --show-labels --no-headers | \
+        awk '{print $5}')
+      pod_name=$(kubectl -n "${ns}" get pod -l "${label}" -o wide --no-headers | \
+        grep "${failed_cp_node}" | awk '{print $1}')
+      if [[ -z "${pod_name}" ]]; then
+          continue
+      else
+          kubectl -n "${ns}" delete pod "${pod_name}" --grace-period=0 --force --ignore-not-found
+      fi
+  done
+done
+
+# The Logic below is to wait for StatefulSet pods to be ready.
+# During testing it took approx 20 mins for all the evicted
+# statefulset pods to be ready. This time could be either less or
+# more. We will wait for 5 mins before we start checking on
+# pods to be ready.
+echo "waiting for ${INITIAL_WAIT} seconds before starting to check on pod readiness."
+echo "This is the initial wait time."
+sleep ${INITIAL_WAIT}
+
+for attempt in {1..180};do
+  echo "waiting for pods to be Ready"
+  echo "Trying attempt $attempt"
+
+  # Statefulset pods are sequentially numbered. For example: 'mariadb-server-0', 'mariadb-server-1'.
+  # We do not have more than 3 replicas for a statefulset pod.
+  ss_not_ready_count=$(kubectl get --all-namespaces pods -o wide --no-headers | \
+    grep '\-0 \|\-1 \|\-2 ' | egrep "0/1|0/2|0/3|1/2|1/3|2/3" | wc -l)
+
+  # We would want the count of this variable to be '0' to determine that all the
+  #  statefulset pods are ready.
+  if [ "$ss_not_ready_count" == 0 ]; then
+      echo "All the statefulset are now ready"
+      exit 0
+  else
+      sleep "${LOOP_WAIT}"
+  fi
+done
+echo "Statefulset pods are not ready in the specified time limit"
+echo "Manual intervention is needed to recover the statefulset pods"
+exit 1