Allow starting without service endpoints #260
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This PR helps with #222
It allows the start of the first Varnish Pod in a StatefulSet/Deployment before any Varnish Pod IP appears on the service Endpoints list.
When you enable liveness/readiness probes, the first instance is waiting for itself. In this PR, new CLI flags are added to define a timeout for frontends/backends initialization. This allows the first Pod to start anyway.
In the VCL you must handle cases when there are no frontends/backends and the liveness/readiness probe should behave in a way that will eventually allow k8s to add this instance to the endpoint list in the service. After that, the controller renders a new VCL with a non-empty list of frontends/backends.