diff --git a/helm/templates/deployment.yaml b/helm/templates/deployment.yaml
index 92586c8..26e0b44 100644
--- a/helm/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/helm/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ spec:
         {{- end }}
     spec:
 
+      initContainers:
+        - name: wait-kafka
+          image: "{{ .Values.images.dockerize.repository }}:{{ .Values.images.dockerize.tag }}"
+          imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.images.dockerize.pullPolicy }}
+          args:
+            - -wait
+            - tcp://{{ index .Values.configProperties "openwifi.kafka.brokerlist" }}
+            - -timeout
+            - 600s
+
       containers:
 
         - name: owsec
diff --git a/helm/values.yaml b/helm/values.yaml
index 96a5fdb..5e62850 100644
--- a/helm/values.yaml
+++ b/helm/values.yaml
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ images:
 #      registry: tip-tip-wlan-cloud-ucentral.jfrog.io
 #      username: username
 #      password: password
+  dockerize:
+    repository: tip-tip-wlan-cloud-ucentral.jfrog.io/dockerize
+    tag: 0.16.0
+    pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
 
 services:
   owsec: