The process of waiting and retrying was significantly more tricky with Node.js, promises, and callbacks. In this case, I leveraged a capability of the mocha test library to allow a test to be retried and manipulate the overall timeout for a section of the test structure to get the same end result:
describe('should repeat until the pods are ready', function() { // Mocha supports a retry mechanism limited by number of retries... this.retries(30); // an a default timeout of 20,000ms that we can increase this.timeout(300000);it('check to see that all pods are reporting ready', function() { return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) { console.log(' - delay 5 seconds...') setTimeout(() => resolve(1), 5000); ...
