Merge pull request #33787 from madhusudancs/fed-sleep-cleanup

hack/e2e-internal/e2e-down.sh

@@ -32,13 +32,23 @@ prepare-e2e
 if [[ "${FEDERATION:-}" == "true" ]];then
   source "${KUBE_ROOT}/federation/cluster/common.sh"
   for zone in ${E2E_ZONES};do
-	# bring up e2e cluster
+    # bring down an e2e cluster
     (
       set-federation-zone-vars "$zone"
       cleanup-federation-api-objects || echo "Couldn't cleanup federation api objects"
+
+      # TODO(madhusudancs): This is an arbitrary amount of sleep to give Kubernetes
+      # clusters enough time to delete the underlying cloud provider resources
+      # corresponding to the Kubernetes resources we deleted as part of the test
+      # teardowns. It is shameful that we are doing this, but this is just a bandage
+      # to stop the bleeding. Please don't use this pattern anywhere. Remove this
+      # when proper cloud provider cleanups are implemented in the individual test
+      # `AfterEach` blocks.
+      sleep 2m
+
       test-teardown
     )
-    done
+done
 else
   test-teardown
 fi