Can you tell kubernetes to start one pod before another?

Question

Can I add some config so that my daemon pods start before other pods can be scheduled or nodes are designated as ready?

Adding post edit:

These are 2 different pods altogether, the daemonset is a downstream dependency to any pods that might get scheduled on the host.

Answer 1

There's no such a thing as Pod hierarchy in Kubernetes between multiple separate types of pods. Meaning belonging to different Deployments, Statefulsets, Daemonsets, etc. In other words, there is no notion of a master pod and children pods. If you like to create your custom hierarchy you can build your own tooling around, for example waiting for the status of all pods in a DaemonSet to start or create a new Pod or Kubernetes workload resource.

The closest in terms of pod dependency in K8s is StatefulSets.

As per the docs:

For a StatefulSet with N replicas, when Pods are being deployed, they are created sequentially, in order from {0..N-1}.