diff --git a/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale-walkthrough.md b/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale-walkthrough.md
index 5b463010846..71357f34164 100644
--- a/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale-walkthrough.md
+++ b/content/en/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale-walkthrough.md
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ kubectl run --generator=run-pod/v1 -it --rm load-generator --image=busybox /bin/
 
 Hit enter for command prompt
 
-while true; do wget -q -O- http://php-apache.default.svc.cluster.local; done
+while true; do wget -q -O- http://php-apache; done
 ```
 
 Within a minute or so, we should see the higher CPU load by executing:
@@ -203,7 +203,6 @@ apiVersion: autoscaling/v2beta2
 kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
 metadata:
   name: php-apache
-  namespace: default
 spec:
   scaleTargetRef:
     apiVersion: apps/v1
@@ -296,7 +295,6 @@ apiVersion: autoscaling/v2beta2
 kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
 metadata:
   name: php-apache
-  namespace: default
 spec:
   scaleTargetRef:
     apiVersion: apps/v1
diff --git a/content/en/examples/application/hpa/php-apache.yaml b/content/en/examples/application/hpa/php-apache.yaml
index c73ae7d631b..f3f1ef5d4f9 100644
--- a/content/en/examples/application/hpa/php-apache.yaml
+++ b/content/en/examples/application/hpa/php-apache.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ apiVersion: autoscaling/v1
 kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
 metadata:
   name: php-apache
-  namespace: default
 spec:
   scaleTargetRef:
     apiVersion: apps/v1