diff --git a/node-placeholder/values.yaml b/node-placeholder/values.yaml
index bb27bc699..f6760f10b 100644
--- a/node-placeholder/values.yaml
+++ b/node-placeholder/values.yaml
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ nodePools:
       requests:
         # Some value slightly lower than allocatable RAM on the nodepool
         memory: 29247442944
-    replicas: 0
+    replicas: 1
   dlab:
     nodeSelector:
       hub.jupyter.org/pool-name: dlab-pool