That’s odd because the logs indicate the config is loaded from that file on first start, and the ConfigMap definitely exists beforehand.
2020/02/28 01:48:50 [notice] 22#0: *1 [kong] init.lua:284 declarative config loaded from /etc/kong/kong.yml, context: init_worker_by_lua*
I added an Init Container and that passes and the proxy container starts, but I get nothing from curling the admin API until after I restart Kong at least once.