tibility-with-application-init-containers>Compatibility with application init containers</h3><p>The Istio CNI plugin may cause networking connectivity problems for any application <code>initContainers</code>. When using Istio CNI, <code>kubelet</code>
starts an injected pod with the following steps:</p><ol><li>The Istio CNI plugin sets up traffic redirection to the Istio sidecar proxy within the pod.</li><li>All init containers execute and complete successfully.</li><li>The Istio sidecar proxy starts in the