 this blog however, I&rsquo;ll focus on the dependency ordering requirement and how AppSwitch addresses it.</p><p>Simply deploying <code>dmgr</code> and node instances as pods on a Kubernetes cluster does not work. <code>dmgr</code> and the node instances happen to have a lengthy initialization process that can take several minutes. If they are all co-scheduled, the application typically ends up in a funny state. When a node instance comes up and finds that <code>dmgr</code> is missing, it would take an alt