Start or stop services

The main cluster service is kubelet, which is responsible of executing all the containers in the cluster. kubelet is a systemd service, so can use systemctl to manage it. Use this command to stop the cluster:

$ sudo systemctl stop kubelet

Start the service by running systemctl as follows:

$ sudo systemctl start kubelet

Restart the service as follows:

$ sudo systemctl restart kubelet

You can check the status of the service by executing:

$ sudo systemctl status kubelet