Parameter connection_retry_sleep no respected - transport SSH delay hard-coded to 3 seconds

[plaformsre]

👻 Brief Description

Impact: No workaround available

We tried setting the connection_retry_sleep parameters as per documentation [1], however we can see that the delay within the Ruby source code is hardcoded to a value 3 [2].

Could you please revisit this and rectify to make the parameter configurable?

As of now, we have no way to delay the SSH transport and our user gets locked out as we have internal logic that requires many minutes to complete.

I can see that connection_retry_sleep is set to 120 in my kitchen diagnose output. But the code itself ignores the value

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[1] https://docs.chef.io/workstation/config_yml_kitchen/#transport-settings

[2] https://github.com/test-kitchen/test-kitchen/blob/main/lib/kitchen/transport/ssh.rb#L225

Version

Kitchen test 2.8.0

Environment

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Scenario

Delay SSH transport service after the AWS EC2 instance is provisioned.

Steps to Reproduce

Set connection_retry_sleep to a value other than 3 and try a test with Kitchen EC2 provider and you can see that it takes the default 3 seconds retry interval.

Expected Result

Delay set by connection_retry_sleep should be respected.

Actual Result

The SSH delay is still showing 3 seconds.

➕ Additional context

No workaround available after EC2 instance is provisioned to delay the testing through the SSH transport. We need at least 10 minutes delay.

[damacus]

This sounds like something that should be configurable. IT should probably default to 3 and then pull a value from whatever you've set in the EC2 driver.

Happy to geta patch on this one and talk you through making any changes you need 👍🏼