diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/el8-diskless/initramfs/usr/lib/dracut/hooks/cmdline/10-confluentdiskless.sh b/confluent_osdeploy/el8-diskless/initramfs/usr/lib/dracut/hooks/cmdline/10-confluentdiskless.sh
index 0ec82763..55ac9156 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/el8-diskless/initramfs/usr/lib/dracut/hooks/cmdline/10-confluentdiskless.sh
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/el8-diskless/initramfs/usr/lib/dracut/hooks/cmdline/10-confluentdiskless.sh
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ while [ $ready = "0" ]; do
         confluent_mgr=${confluent_mgr%]}
     	echo 'Failure establishing TLS conneection to '$confluent_mgr' (try `osdeploy initialize -t` on the deployment server)'
 	if [ ! -z "$autoconsdev" ]; then echo 'Failure establishing TLS conneection to '$confluent_mgr' (try `osdeploy initialize -t` on the deployment server)' > $autoconsdev; fi
-    	sleep 1
+    	sleep 10
     else
         ready=1
     fi
diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/el8/initramfs/usr/lib/dracut/hooks/pre-trigger/01-confluent.sh b/confluent_osdeploy/el8/initramfs/usr/lib/dracut/hooks/pre-trigger/01-confluent.sh
index 905ee604..fad12fe2 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/el8/initramfs/usr/lib/dracut/hooks/pre-trigger/01-confluent.sh
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/el8/initramfs/usr/lib/dracut/hooks/pre-trigger/01-confluent.sh
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ if [ ! -z "$autocons" ]; then
     errout="-e $autocons"
 fi
 while ! confluentpython /opt/confluent/bin/apiclient $errout /confluent-api/self/deploycfg2 > /etc/confluent/confluent.deploycfg; do
-	sleep 1
+	sleep 10
 done
 ifidx=$(cat /tmp/confluent.ifidx)
 ifname=$(ip link |grep ^$ifidx:|awk '{print $2}')
diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/genesis/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/rungenesis b/confluent_osdeploy/genesis/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/rungenesis
index ed037976..d626e870 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/genesis/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/rungenesis
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/genesis/initramfs/opt/confluent/bin/rungenesis
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ done
 cd - > /dev/null
 rm -rf $tpmdir
 while ! /usr/libexec/platform-python /opt/confluent/bin/apiclient /confluent-api/self/deploycfg2 > /etc/confluent/confluent.deploycfg; do
-	sleep 1
+	sleep 10
 done
 if [ ! -z "$autocons" ] && grep "textconsole: true" /etc/confluent/confluent.deploycfg > /dev/null; then /opt/confluent/bin/autocons -c > /dev/null; fi
 umask $oldumask