diff --git a/test/kubernetes/run.sh b/test/kubernetes/run.sh
index 03fad0fc..8487a225 100755
--- a/test/kubernetes/run.sh
+++ b/test/kubernetes/run.sh
@@ -10,3 +10,8 @@ DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
 "$REPO_ROOT"/test/workloads/init.sh
 "$DIR"/test-deployment.sh
 "$DIR"/test-daemonset.sh
+
+kubectl -n test delete deploy podinfo
+kubectl -n test delete svc podinfo-svc
+kubectl apply -f ${REPO_ROOT}/test/workloads/deployment.yaml -n test
+"$DIR"/test-hpa.sh
diff --git a/test/kubernetes/test-hpa.sh b/test/kubernetes/test-hpa.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..7b3773df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/kubernetes/test-hpa.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o errexit
+
+REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+
+cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
+apiVersion: autoscaling/v2
+kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
+metadata:
+  name: podinfo
+  namespace: test
+spec:
+  scaleTargetRef:
+    apiVersion: apps/v1
+    kind: Deployment
+    name: podinfo
+  minReplicas: 2
+  maxReplicas: 4
+  metrics:
+    - type: Resource
+      resource:
+        name: cpu
+        target:
+          type: Utilization
+          averageUtilization: 99
+EOF
+
+cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: podinfo-svc
+  namespace: test
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  selector:
+    app: podinfo
+  ports:
+    - name: http
+      port: 9898
+      protocol: TCP
+      targetPort: http
+---
+apiVersion: flagger.app/v1beta1
+kind: Canary
+metadata:
+  name: podinfo
+  namespace: test
+spec:
+  provider: kubernetes
+  targetRef:
+    apiVersion: apps/v1
+    kind: Deployment
+    name: podinfo
+  autoscalerRef:
+    apiVersion: autoscaling/v2
+    kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
+    name: podinfo
+  progressDeadlineSeconds: 60
+  service:
+    port: 80
+    targetPort: 9898
+    name: podinfo-svc
+    portDiscovery: true
+  analysis:
+    interval: 15s
+    threshold: 10
+    iterations: 5
+    metrics:
+      - name: request-success-rate
+        interval: 1m
+        thresholdRange:
+          min: 99
+      - name: request-duration
+        interval: 30s
+        thresholdRange:
+          max: 500
+    webhooks:
+      - name: "gate"
+        type: confirm-rollout
+        url: http://flagger-loadtester.test/gate/approve
+      - name: acceptance-test
+        type: pre-rollout
+        url: http://flagger-loadtester.test/
+        timeout: 10s
+        metadata:
+          type: bash
+          cmd: "curl -sd 'test' http://podinfo-svc-canary/token | grep token"
+      - name: load-test
+        url: http://flagger-loadtester.test/
+        timeout: 5s
+        metadata:
+          type: cmd
+          cmd: "hey -z 10m -q 10 -c 2 http://podinfo-svc-canary.test/"
+EOF
+
+echo '>>> Waiting for primary to be ready'
+retries=50
+count=0
+ok=false
+until ${ok}; do
+    kubectl -n test get canary/podinfo | grep 'Initialized' && ok=true || ok=false
+    sleep 5
+    count=$(($count + 1))
+    if [[ ${count} -eq ${retries} ]]; then
+        kubectl -n flagger-system logs deployment/flagger
+        echo "No more retries left"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+done
+
+echo '✔ Canary initialization test passed'
+
+echo '>>> Waiting for primary HPA to be created'
+retries=10
+count=0
+ok=false
+until ${ok}; do
+    kubectl -n test get hpa podinfo-primary && ok=true || ok=false
+    sleep 2
+    count=$(($count + 1))
+    if [[ ${count} -eq ${retries} ]]; then
+        kubectl -n flagger-system logs deployment/flagger
+        echo "No more retries left"
+        echo '⨯ Primary HPA not found'
+        exit 1
+    fi
+done
+
+echo '✔ Primary HPA successfully reconciled'
+
+# update the target hpa resource utilization
+kubectl -n test patch hpa podinfo --type json --patch='[ { "op": "replace", "path": "/spec/metrics/0/resource/target/averageUtilization", "value": 50 } ]'
+
+echo '>>> Triggering canary deployment'
+kubectl -n test set image deployment/podinfo podinfod=ghcr.io/stefanprodan/podinfo:6.0.1
+
+echo '>>> Waiting for canary promotion'
+retries=50
+count=0
+ok=false
+until ${ok}; do
+    kubectl -n test describe deployment/podinfo-primary | grep '6.0.1' && ok=true || ok=false
+    sleep 10
+    kubectl -n flagger-system logs deployment/flagger --tail 1
+    count=$(($count + 1))
+    if [[ ${count} -eq ${retries} ]]; then
+        kubectl -n test describe deployment/podinfo
+        kubectl -n test describe deployment/podinfo-primary
+        kubectl -n flagger-system logs deployment/flagger
+        echo "No more retries left"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+done
+
+echo '✔ Canary promotion test passed'
+
+util=$(kubectl -n test get hpa podinfo -ojsonpath='{.spec.metrics[0].resource.target.averageUtilization}' | xargs)
+if [[ ${util} -eq 50 ]]; then
+    echo '✔ Primary HPA successfully reconciled'
+else
+    echo "⨯ Unexpected primary HPA resource target average utilization value: ${util}, expected: 50"
+    exit 1
+fi