Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
This situation is a typical problem in integration tests (but not just). If the controller manages resources with finalizers in its namespace and the namespace gets deleted, in this case, the namespace deletion can get stuck since the pods of the operator are deleted before it can adequately finalize the resource (thus remove the finalizers).
Describe the solution you'd like
The ideal situation would be, that it waits until all the custom resources in the same namespace are cleaned up. (It might be also be possible to have such an intelligent shutdown hook).
Alternative would be just a simple shutdown hook to add that waits some time before it stops the controller. This might be trivial to add, does not require coding, but would be good to do add an integration test.
Additional context
see also: #1876 - The finalizers would be needed if the operator has namespace scoped roles and rolebindings.
Notes:
For leader election, we might actually halt() instead of exit, which bypasses the shutdown hooks.