# StatefulSet Basics — end the watch when you've seen what you need to

> kubectl get pod -l app=nginx --watch web-3 1/1 Terminating 0 9m web-2 1/1 Terminating 0 9m web-3 1/1 Terminating 0 9m web-2 1/1 Terminating 0 9m web-1 1/1 Terminating 0 44m web-0 1/1 Terminating 0 44m web-0 0/1 Terminating 0 44m web-3 0/1 Terminating 0 9m web-2 0/1 Terminating 0 9m web-1 0/1 Termina

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kubectl get pod -l app=nginx --watch

web-3 1/1 Terminating 0 9m web-2 1/1 Terminating 0 9m web-3 1/1 Terminating 0 9m web-2 1/1 Terminating 0 9m web-1 1/1 Terminating 0 44m web-0 1/1 Terminating 0 44m web-0 0/1 Terminating 0 44m web-3 0/1 Terminating 0 9m web-2 0/1 Terminating 0 9m web-1 0/1 Terminating 0 44m web-0 0/1 Terminating 0 44m web-2 0/1 Terminating 0 9m web-2 0/1 Terminating 0 9m web-2 0/1 Terminating 0 9m web-1 0/1 Terminating 0 44m web-1 0/1 Terminating 0 44m web-1 0/1 Terminating 0 44m web-0 0/1 Terminating 0 44m web-0 0/1 Terminating 0 44m web-0 0/1 Terminating 0 44m web-3 0/1 Terminating 0 9m web-3 0/1 Terminating 0 9m web-3 0/1 Terminating 0 9m

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
During deletion, a StatefulSet removes all Pods concurrently; it does not wait for
a Pod's ordinal successor to terminate prior to deleting that Pod.

Close the terminal where the `kubectl get` command is running and delete the `nginx`
Service:
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
Delete the persistent storage media for the PersistentVolumes used in this tutorial.
```

NAME STATUS VOLUME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES STORAGECLASS AGE www-web-0 Bound pvc-2bf00408-d366-4a12-bad0-1869c65d0bee 1Gi RWO standard 25m www-web-1 Bound pvc-ba3bfe9c-413e-4b95-a2c0-3ea8a54dbab4 1Gi RWO standard 24m www-web-2 Bound pvc-cba6cfa6-3a47-486b-a138-db5930207eaf 1Gi RWO standard 15m www-web-3 Bound pvc-0c04d7f0-787a-4977-8da3-d9d3a6d8d752 1Gi RWO standard 15m www-web-4 Bound pvc-b2c73489-e70b-4a4e-9ec1-9eab439aa43e 1Gi RWO standard 14m

NAME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES RECLAIM POLICY STATUS CLAIM STORAGECLASS REASON AGE pvc-0c04d7f0-787a-4977-8da3-d9d3a6d8d752 1Gi RWO Delete Bound default/www-web-3 standard 15m pvc-2bf00408-d366-4a12-bad0-1869c65d0bee 1Gi RWO Delete Bound default/www-web-0 standard 25m pvc-b2c73489-e70b-4a4e-9ec1-9eab439aa43e 1Gi RWO Delete Bound default/www-web-4 standard 14m pvc-ba3bfe9c-413e-4b95-a2c0-3ea8a54dbab4 1Gi RWO Delete Bound default/www-web-1 standard 24m pvc-cba6cfa6-3a47-486b-a138-db5930207eaf 1Gi RWO Delete Bound default/www-web-2 standard 15m

kubectl delete pvc www-web-0 www-web-1 www-web-2 www-web-3 www-web-4 …

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