diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/azure/azure_blobDiskController.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/azure/azure_blobDiskController.go
index d738599eabc..a3e9248378e 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/azure/azure_blobDiskController.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/azure/azure_blobDiskController.go
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
 	"net/url"
-	"os"
 	"regexp"
 	"sync"
 
@@ -70,12 +69,6 @@ var accountsLock = &sync.Mutex{}
 
 func newBlobDiskController(common *controllerCommon) (*BlobDiskController, error) {
 	c := BlobDiskController{common: common}
-	err := c.init()
-
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
 	return &c, nil
 }
 
@@ -316,7 +309,7 @@ func (c *BlobDiskController) DeleteBlobDisk(diskURI string, wasForced bool) erro
 
 // Init tries best effort to ensure that 2 accounts standard/premium were created
 // to be used by shared blob disks. This to increase the speed pvc provisioning (in most of cases)
-func (c *BlobDiskController) init() error {
+func (c *BlobDiskController) InitStorageAccount() error {
 	if !c.shouldInit() {
 		return nil
 	}
@@ -543,13 +536,7 @@ func (c *BlobDiskController) getDiskCount(SAName string) (int, error) {
 // and we only do that in the controller
 
 func (c *BlobDiskController) shouldInit() bool {
-	if os.Args[0] == "kube-controller-manager" || (os.Args[0] == "/hyperkube" && os.Args[1] == "controller-manager") {
-		swapped := atomic.CompareAndSwapInt64(&initFlag, 0, 1)
-		if swapped {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
+	return atomic.CompareAndSwapInt64(&initFlag, 0, 1)
 }
 
 func (c *BlobDiskController) getAllStorageAccounts() (map[string]*storageAccountState, error) {
diff --git a/pkg/volume/azure_dd/azure_dd.go b/pkg/volume/azure_dd/azure_dd.go
index bb45bf3b4d9..2b40c41dead 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/azure_dd/azure_dd.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/azure_dd/azure_dd.go
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ import (
 
 // interface exposed by the cloud provider implementing Disk functionlity
 type DiskController interface {
+	InitStorageAccount() error
+
 	CreateBlobDisk(dataDiskName string, storageAccountType storage.SkuName, sizeGB int, forceStandAlone bool) (string, error)
 	DeleteBlobDisk(diskUri string, wasForced bool) error
 
diff --git a/pkg/volume/azure_dd/azure_provision.go b/pkg/volume/azure_dd/azure_provision.go
index d037f636d80..230be9211dc 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/azure_dd/azure_provision.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/azure_dd/azure_provision.go
@@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ func (p *azureDiskProvisioner) Provision() (*v1.PersistentVolume, error) {
 				}
 			}
 		} else {
+			if err = diskController.InitStorageAccount(); err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
 			diskURI, err = diskController.CreateBlobDisk(name, skuName, requestGB, forceStandAlone)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, err