 pod along with the pod&rsquo;s other containers.</li></ol><p>Init containers execute before the sidecar proxy starts, which can result in traffic loss during their execution.
Avoid this traffic loss with one or both of the following settings:</p><ul><li>Set the <code>traffic.sidecar.istio.io/excludeOutboundIPRanges</code> annotation to disable redirecting traffic to any
CIDRs the init containers communicate with.</li><li>Set the <code>traffic.sidecar.istio.io/excludeOutboundPorts</code> annotation to disab