If infrastructure or machine provisioning is slow, the installer may wait several minutes before declaring provisioning successful due to the exponential backoff.

For instance, if dns resolution from load balancers is slow to propogate and we 

Sometimes, it depends on provisioning being slow. 

1. Provision a cluster in an environment that has slow dns resolution (unclear how to set this up)
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The installer will only check for infrastructure or machine readiness at intervals of several minutes after a certain threshold (say 10 minutes).

Installer should just check regularly, e.g. every 15 seconds.

It may not be possible to definitively test this. We may want to just check ci logs for an improvement in provisioning time and check for lack of regressions.