diff --git a/app/react/kubernetes/applications/components/ReplicationFormSection/ReplicationFormSection.tsx b/app/react/kubernetes/applications/components/ReplicationFormSection/ReplicationFormSection.tsx
index c7ee59946..fd20bf523 100644
--- a/app/react/kubernetes/applications/components/ReplicationFormSection/ReplicationFormSection.tsx
+++ b/app/react/kubernetes/applications/components/ReplicationFormSection/ReplicationFormSection.tsx
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ export function ReplicationFormSection({
       <FormControl label="Instance count" required>
         <Input
           type="number"
-          min="1"
+          min="0"
           max="9999"
           value={values.replicaCount}
           disabled={!supportScalableReplicaDeployment}
           onChange={(e) =>
-            onChange({ replicaCount: e.target.valueAsNumber || 1 })
+            onChange({ replicaCount: e.target.valueAsNumber || 0 })
           }
           className="w-1/4"
           data-cy="k8sAppCreate-replicaCountInput"
diff --git a/app/react/kubernetes/applications/components/ReplicationFormSection/replicationValidation.ts b/app/react/kubernetes/applications/components/ReplicationFormSection/replicationValidation.ts
index 9dcbadcab..8a24a62a8 100644
--- a/app/react/kubernetes/applications/components/ReplicationFormSection/replicationValidation.ts
+++ b/app/react/kubernetes/applications/components/ReplicationFormSection/replicationValidation.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export function replicationValidation(
   } = validationData || {};
   return object({
     replicaCount: number()
-      .min(1, 'Instance count must be greater than 0.')
+      .min(0, 'Instance count must be greater than or equal to 0.')
       .test(
         'overflow',
         'This application would exceed available resources. Please review resource reservations or the instance count.',