The transient ssh subcommand supports an ssh timeout option. This will, as expected, specify the amount of time transient will attempt to ssh in to the VM before giving up. However, if transient ssh is executed immediately after the command that created the VM (like in a script) it will potentially fail immediately saying that there is no VM with the given name. This happens because the ssh timeout only applies once transient knows the ssh address of the VM with the given name (and that information is only available once transient has started the VM).
We should probably extend the ssh-timeout option for the ssh subcommand to also cause transient to wait at least that long for the VM to exist.
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transient sshsubcommand supports an ssh timeout option. This will, as expected, specify the amount of timetransientwill attempt to ssh in to the VM before giving up. However, iftransient sshis executed immediately after the command that created the VM (like in a script) it will potentially fail immediately saying that there is no VM with the given name. This happens because the ssh timeout only applies oncetransientknows the ssh address of the VM with the given name (and that information is only available oncetransienthas started the VM).We should probably extend the ssh-timeout option for the
sshsubcommand to also causetransientto wait at least that long for the VM to exist.