connection_retries doesn't seem to work?

[empath]

I may misunderstand what it does, but I have this in my .kitchen.yml file.

transport:
ssh_key: ~/key
username: ec2-user
connection_retries: 20

I had an AMI that would boot, but SSH would never start working, and it just continuously printed Waiting for SSH service on 10.97.19.32:22, retrying in 3 seconds
Waiting for SSH service on 10.97.19.32:22, retrying in 3 seconds

for several hundred lines before I noticed. Am I missing something obvious here? Should it not have just tried 20 times and then failed? Is there some other way to time out a kitchen test if ssh doesn't start working?

[JaBurd]

I've also tried to modify the max_wait_until_ready attribute. That also doesn't seem to have an impact. If the node doesn't spin up in < 300s it will auto terminate. None of the settings I've attempted to modify seem to have any impact.

[cheeseplus]

See this post, that should address the issued and if not feel free to open a new issue #103 (comment)