diff --git a/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/apps.yaml b/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/apps.yaml
index 13c3cb2d..d3d799d5 100644
--- a/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/apps.yaml
+++ b/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/apps.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
 kind: ApplicationSet
 metadata:
   name: apps
+  argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: 4
 spec:
   generators:
   - git:
diff --git a/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/bootstrap.yaml b/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/bootstrap.yaml
index 01ae059b..7099f7fe 100644
--- a/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/bootstrap.yaml
+++ b/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/bootstrap.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
 kind: ApplicationSet
 metadata:
   name: bootstrap
+  argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: 1
 spec:
   generators:
   - git:
diff --git a/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/platform.yaml b/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/platform.yaml
index 5ea39825..a79561cb 100644
--- a/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/platform.yaml
+++ b/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/platform.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
 kind: ApplicationSet
 metadata:
   name: platform
+  argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: 3
 spec:
   generators:
   - git:
diff --git a/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/system.yaml b/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/system.yaml
index 11331fd8..86a9f646 100644
--- a/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/system.yaml
+++ b/bootstrap/root-app/applicationsets/system.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
 kind: ApplicationSet
 metadata:
   name: system
+  argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: 2
 spec:
   generators:
   - git: