retryable_tries gets ignored

[henryk-radoslaw-rychlik]

$ kitchen converge
-----> Starting Kitchen (v2.2.5)
-----> Creating <storm-supervisor-ubuntu-1804>...
       Detected platform: ubuntu version 1.2 on x86_64. Instance Type: ["m5.xlarge", "t3a.xlarge", "t3.xlarge", "m5a.xlarge", "t2.xlarge"]. Default username: ubuntu (default).
       Waited 0/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 5/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 10/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 15/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 20/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 25/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 30/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 35/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 40/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 45/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 50/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 55/60s for spot request <sir-spk1jgqg> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 0/60s for spot request <sir-5bq9kfcj> to become fulfilled.
       Waited 5/60s for spot request <sir-5bq9kfcj> to become fulfilled.
       Instance <i-09bc8f973704eabef> requested.

Despite the following in the kitchen file:

$ grep retry .kitchen.yml
  retryable_tries: 5
  retryable_sleep: 5

This seems to be in contradiction with the documentation:
retryable_tries

The retryable_tries propery allows you to set the number of retries to try when creating a new instance. Combines with retryable_sleep.

The default is 60.

Am I misunderstanding the documentation?

[clintoncwolfe]

That particular code - the spot instance request code - has been rewritten. Current test kitchen (2.6.2) and current kitchen-ec2 (3.8.0) now use a different API call to run spot instances, and use retryable_tries and retryable_sleep differently. Try upgrading and see if the behavior is as you expect.

[tas50]

Closing this out since we never heard back. If you're still having the issue using the latest Chef Workstation let us know.