From 32b68de4dbc527ff99bd3c50f64baa5517741e5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Megan Marsh Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:26:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] clarify pause before connecting code --- website/source/docs/templates/communicator.html.md | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/source/docs/templates/communicator.html.md b/website/source/docs/templates/communicator.html.md index 42a4c2e94..2bd611b04 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/templates/communicator.html.md +++ b/website/source/docs/templates/communicator.html.md @@ -213,7 +213,8 @@ If you end up in this situation, you can use the template option "pause_before_connecting": "10m" } -In this example, Packer will wait 10 minutes before attempting to connect to -the guest. +In this example, Packer will check whether it can connect, as normal. But once +a connection attempt is successful, it will disconnect and then wait 10 minutes +before connecting to the guest and beginning provisioning.