I was playing with the percona xtradb operator on one of my test clusters last week and left it in a state where mysqld error logs were piling up over the week-end. On Monday morning my nodes had their file systems full and I discovered what kubernetes evicted pods were : pods that fail when a node's resources get constrained.
My google fu directed me towards several commands similar to the following, but they all had a thing or another that did not work properly. Here is the one I pieced together from these various sources :