diff --git a/.github/workflows/pr-creation.yaml b/.github/workflows/pr-creation.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e719eb4f89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/pr-creation.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+name: Automatically create / update pull request
+
+# run this workflow only on new feature branches, not when they're merged to main
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - "environment/staging-next"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  create_pr_staging:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Create Pull Request
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v7
+        with:
+          base: environment/staging
+          branch: environment/staging-next
+          always-create: true
diff --git a/helm-guestbook/.github/workflows/pr-creation.yaml b/helm-guestbook/.github/workflows/pr-creation.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fd35e2faf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helm-guestbook/.github/workflows/pr-creation.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+name: Automatically create / update pull request
+
+# run this workflow only on new feature branches, not when they're merged to main
+on:
+  push:
+    branches-ignore:
+      - "main"
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  create_pr_development:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Create Pull Request
+        uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v7
+        with:
+          base: development-next
+          branch: development-next
+          author: argocd <email@address.com>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/helm-guestbook/values.yaml b/helm-guestbook/values.yaml
index d247b389c4..f304f8b809 100644
--- a/helm-guestbook/values.yaml
+++ b/helm-guestbook/values.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 # This is a YAML-formatted file.
 # Declare variables to be passed into your templates.
 
-replicaCount: 1
+
+replicaCount: 2
 
 image:
   repository: gcr.io/google-samples/gb-frontend