ions, there could be a chain of interdependencies. Depending on the applications hosted by the node instances, there may be an ordering requirement among them as well. With long service initialization times and crash-loop restarts, there is little chance for the application to start in any reasonable length of time.</p><h3 id=sidecar-dependency-in-istio>Sidecar dependency in Istio</h3><p>Istio itself is affected by a version of the dependency ordering problem. Since connections into and out of a service run