istio-init waiting for too long time to start

[Harish-R-T]

Is this the right place to submit this?

• This is not a security vulnerability or a crashing bug
• This is not a question about how to use Istio

Bug Description

We are using Istio-enabled pods in some namespaces. Upon looking at a few job pods having issues starting the Istio-init container, it takes too much time to start. Until we restarted the pod manually, we could not see any resource issues, but a few are facing the issue internally. 

Version

$ istioctl version
client version: 1.13.2
control plane version: 1.20.3
data plane version: 1.20.3 (519 proxies)
$ kubectl version --short
Flag --short has been deprecated, and will be removed in the future. The --short output will become the default.
Client Version: v1.27.0
Kustomize Version: v5.0.1
Server Version: v1.28.9

Additional Information

No response

[howardjohn]

Can you provide logs?