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 fdcc75d2113..d03663fa228 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
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ It defines an index.php page which performs some CPU intensive computations:
 First, we will start a deployment running the image and expose it as a service:
 
 ```shell
-kubectl run php-apache --image=k8s.gcr.io/hpa-example --requests=cpu=200m --limits=cpu=500m --expose --port=80
+kubectl run php-apache --image=k8s.gcr.io/hpa-example --requests=cpu=200m --limits=cpu=500m --expose --port=80  --generator=run-pod/v1
 ```
 ```
 service/php-apache created