diff --git a/src/util/openfaas/index.js b/src/util/openfaas/index.js
index f27fb81186..2a8c9564ef 100644
--- a/src/util/openfaas/index.js
+++ b/src/util/openfaas/index.js
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ const { RetryRequestError, RespStatusError } = require('../utils');
 
 const FAAS_BASE_IMG = process.env.FAAS_BASE_IMG || 'rudderlabs/openfaas-flask:main';
 const FAAS_MAX_PODS_IN_TEXT = process.env.FAAS_MAX_PODS_IN_TEXT || '40';
+const FAAS_MIN_PODS_IN_TEXT = process.env.FAAS_MIN_PODS_IN_TEXT || '1';
 const FAAS_REQUESTS_CPU = process.env.FAAS_REQUESTS_CPU || '0.5';
 const FAAS_REQUESTS_MEMORY = process.env.FAAS_REQUESTS_MEMORY || '140Mi';
 const FAAS_LIMITS_CPU = process.env.FAAS_LIMITS_CPU || FAAS_REQUESTS_CPU;
@@ -128,6 +129,7 @@ const deployFaasFunction = async (functionName, code, versionId, libraryVersionI
         'openfaas-fn': 'true',
         'parent-component': 'openfaas',
         'com.openfaas.scale.max': FAAS_MAX_PODS_IN_TEXT,
+        'com.openfaas.scale.min': FAAS_MIN_PODS_IN_TEXT,
       },
       annotations: {
         'prometheus.io.scrape': 'true',