diff --git a/gcloud/Deployment Steps.md b/gcloud/Deployment Steps.md
index 8caef3d59d5a080abf149eb07c26d9083a15d5e4..a291b8cadcd3fec39f260e85969118daa101ebec 100644
--- a/gcloud/Deployment Steps.md	
+++ b/gcloud/Deployment Steps.md	
@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ For our main services, we first define our Horizontal Autoscaler, then we deploy
 `kubectl apply -f gcloud/user-service/user-service-autoscaler.yaml`
 `kubectl apply -f gcloud/user-service/user-service-deployment.yaml`
 
+### Friend Backend
+
+`kubectl apply -f gcloud/friend-service/friend-service-autoscaler.yaml`
+`kubectl apply -f gcloud/friend-service/friend-service-deployment.yaml`
+
 <br />
 
 ## NGINX Service
diff --git a/gcloud/friend-service/friend-service-autoscaler.yaml b/gcloud/friend-service/friend-service-autoscaler.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d2d45802a57d5945e575e03fc4d560603e12d8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcloud/friend-service/friend-service-autoscaler.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+apiVersion: autoscaling/v1
+kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
+metadata:
+  name: friend-backend-deployment-hpa
+spec:
+  scaleTargetRef:
+    apiVersion: apps/v1
+    kind: Deployment
+    name: friend-backend-deployment
+  minReplicas: 1
+  maxReplicas: 5
+  targetCPUUtilizationPercentage: 80
diff --git a/gcloud/friend-service/friend-service-deployment.yaml b/gcloud/friend-service/friend-service-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f92ba2a730bf8a493a4c60823ca505e6f35017a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcloud/friend-service/friend-service-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: friend-backend-deployment
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: friend-backend
+  replicas: 3
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: friend-backend
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: friend-service
+          image: europe-west2-docker.pkg.dev/daily-384822/daily-repo/friend-service:v1
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 9000
+          env:
+            - name: MONGO_HOST
+              value: "friend-mongo-service"
+            - name: MONGO_PORT
+              value: "27019"
+            - name: MONGO_DBNAME
+              value: "friends"
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: friend-backend-service
+spec:
+  selector:
+    app: friend-backend
+  ports:
+    - name: http
+      port: 9000
+      targetPort: 9000
+  type: ClusterIP