K8S: PVC stuck in status “Terminating”

You need to patch the PVC to set the “finalizers” setting to null, this allows the final unmount from the node, and the PVC can be deleted.

kubectl patch pvc {PVC_NAME} -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}'

References:

• https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/69697

• https://veducate.co.uk/kubernetes-pvc-terminating/