#2719 [BUG] Demo cluster not starting on slow internet connection Issue created by nanohanno Describe the bug Starting the demo cluster via

flytectl demo start

returned after ~5 min with this error message

+---------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+
|                   SERVICE                   |    STATUS     | NAMESPACE |
+---------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+
| flyte-kubernetes-dashboard-7fd989b99d-hgmqb | Pending       | flyte     |
+---------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+
| minio-55b8c8f4bc-mvjz5                      | Pending       | flyte     |
+---------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+
| postgres-bdb75f779-cngdp                    | Running       | flyte     |
+---------------------------------------------+---------------+-----------+
Error: Get "<https://127.0.0.1:30086/api/v1/nodes>": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:30086: connect: connection refused

Running

flytectl demo exec -- kubectl describe pod -n flyte

shows that the pending pods are pulling the image before it exits. Also, it turned out that my internet connection was slow but increasing

$FLYTE_TIMEOUT

as recommended in #2197 did not help. Could it be that it fails while waiting for the deployments to be ready ( flyte/docker/sandbox-lite/flyte-entrypoint-dind.sh Line 63 in </flyteorg/flyte/commit/cf24edfbb8c55be5d29c96f7f6ba761ceb44003f|cf24edf> ) when it is still loading the image? The timeout

--timeout=5m

is not affected by changing

$FLYTE_TIMEOUT

I guess. Expected behavior The demo cluster starts succesfully. Additional context to reproduce 1. Slow internet connection :) 2.

flytectl demo start

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