salt-cloud -m 'cloud.map' hangs on Warning: Permanently added <ip address> (RSA) to list of known addresses

Question

Executing the command in the CLI:

sudo salt-cloud -m 'cloud.map'

...ends up hanging with the message:

Warning: Permanently added <ip address> (RSA) to list of known addresses

Answer 1

This problem appears to have happened because pip was referencing the old salt-cloud command. Salt-stack has integrated salt-cloud into the main branch.

Removing salt-cloud using:

pip uninstall salt-cloud

corrected the problem by allowing the command line to reference the right program.