Why need sleep 60 seconds if instance state is running?

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Why need sleep 60 seconds if instance state is running? #31

Closed odessky2 closed 5 years ago

odessky2 commented 5 years ago

Hi! You have this code fragment:

if state == 'running':
  time.sleep(60)

Please explain, why need wait 60 seconds?

jicowan commented 5 years ago

This was to avoid a race condition. If I were to re-write this, I would probably break this apart into multiple functions and use step functions for orchestration.