# Explore Termination Behavior for Pods And Their Endpoints — Example flow with endpoint termination

> The following is the example flow described in the Termination of Pods document.

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## Knowledge

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The following is the example flow described in the Termination of Pods document.

Let's say you have a Deployment containing a single nginx replica (say just for the sake of demonstration purposes) and a Service

Now create the Deployment Pod and Service using the above files

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl apply -f pod-with-graceful-termination.yaml
kubectl apply -f explore-graceful-termination-nginx.yaml
```

Once the Pod and Service are running, you can get the name of any associated EndpointSlices

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl get endpointslice
```

The output is similar to this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
NAME                  ADDRESSTYPE   PORTS   ENDPOINTS                 AGE
nginx-service-6tjbr   IPv4          80      10.12.1.199,10.12.1.201   22m
```

You can see its status, and validate that there is one endpoint registered

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl get endpointslices -o json -l kubernetes.io/service-name=nginx-service
```

The output is similar to this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
{
    "addressType": "IPv4",
    "apiVersion": "discovery.k8s.io/v1",
    "endpoints": [
        {
            "addresses": [
                "10.12.1.201"
            ],
            "conditions": {
                "ready": true,
                "serving": true,
                "terminating": false
```

Now let's terminate the Pod and validate that the Pod is being terminated respecting the graceful termination period configuration

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl delete pod nginx-deployment-7768647bf9-b4b9s
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl get pods
```

The output is similar to this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
NAME                                READY   STATUS        RESTARTS      AGE
nginx-deployment-7768647bf9-b4b9s   1/1     Terminating   0             4m1s
nginx-deployment-7768647bf9-rkxlw   1/1     Running       0             8s
```

You can see that the new pod got scheduled. …

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