diff --git a/doc/source/user/operating-kolla.rst b/doc/source/user/operating-kolla.rst
index ce870c32a1..ac83efc19a 100644
--- a/doc/source/user/operating-kolla.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user/operating-kolla.rst
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ Environment.
 ``kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY check`` is used to do post-deployment smoke
 tests.
 
+``kolla-ansible -i INVENTORY stop`` is used to stop running containers.
+
 .. note::
 
    In order to do smoke tests, requires ``kolla_enable_sanity_checks=yes``.