title: How to stop kubelet service running in an RKE kubernetes worker node
body: <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>