<p>I need to simulate Node &quot;NotReady&quot; status for a node and tried to stop kubelet to achieve that. But am getting the below error. Looks like this is not the right command for my k8s environment. I need this to verify the working of taints and tolerations.</p>
<p>systemctl stop kubelet.service</p>
<p>Failed to stop kubelet.service: Unit kubelet.service not loaded.</p>

Ashok
<p>RKE is a K8s distribution that runs entirely within Docker containers as per <a href="https://rancher.com/docs/rke/latest/en/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">documentation</a>. That means that none of the K8s services are native Linux services. Try <code>docker ps</code>, and you'll find a container named <code>kubelet</code> running (among others).</p>
<p>So to stop kubelet service on RKE clusters, you'll need to stop the container:</p>
<pre><code>docker stop kubelet
</code></pre>
