diff --git a/.github/workflows/production.yml b/.github/workflows/production.yml
index 300bfc5e8..d8708124b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/production.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/production.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
           echo Provision database
           CPU_REQUEST=75m CPU_LIMIT=2000m MEMORY_REQUEST=2Gi MEMORY_LIMIT=16Gi PVC_SIZE=45Gi PROJ_TARGET=e1e498-prod bash openshift/scripts/oc_provision_db.sh prod apply
           echo Deploy API
-          CPU_REQUEST=100m CPU_LIMIT=500m MEMORY_REQUEST=3Gi MEMORY_LIMIT=4Gi REPLICAS=3 PROJ_TARGET=e1e498-prod VANITY_DOMAIN=psu.nrs.gov.bc.ca SECOND_LEVEL_DOMAIN=apps.silver.devops.gov.bc.ca bash ./openshift/scripts/oc_deploy.sh prod apply
+          WORKERS_PER_CORE=0.25 CPU_REQUEST=100m CPU_LIMIT=500m MEMORY_REQUEST=3Gi MEMORY_LIMIT=4Gi REPLICAS=3 PROJ_TARGET=e1e498-prod VANITY_DOMAIN=psu.nrs.gov.bc.ca SECOND_LEVEL_DOMAIN=apps.silver.devops.gov.bc.ca bash ./openshift/scripts/oc_deploy.sh prod apply
           echo Env Canada Subscriber
           PROJ_TARGET=e1e498-prod bash openshift/scripts/oc_provision_ec_gdps_cronjob.sh prod apply
           PROJ_TARGET=e1e498-prod bash openshift/scripts/oc_provision_ec_hrdps_cronjob.sh prod apply
diff --git a/openshift/scripts/oc_deploy.sh b/openshift/scripts/oc_deploy.sh
index 3de226dfc..95339ea3d 100755
--- a/openshift/scripts/oc_deploy.sh
+++ b/openshift/scripts/oc_deploy.sh
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ OC_PROCESS="oc -n ${PROJ_TARGET} process -f ${PATH_DC} \
  -p POSTGRES_READ_HOST=${POSTGRES_READ_HOST:-"patroni-${NAME_APP}-${SUFFIX}-replica"} \
  -p VANITY_DOMAIN=${VANITY_DOMAIN} \
  ${SECOND_LEVEL_DOMAIN:+ "-p SECOND_LEVEL_DOMAIN=${SECOND_LEVEL_DOMAIN}"} \
+ ${WORKERS_PER_CORE:+ "-p WORKERS_PER_CORE=${WORKERS_PER_CORE}"} \
  ${CPU_REQUEST:+ "-p CPU_REQUEST=${CPU_REQUEST}"} \
  ${CPU_LIMIT:+ "-p CPU_LIMIT=${CPU_LIMIT}"} \
  ${MEMORY_REQUEST:+ "-p MEMORY_REQUEST=${MEMORY_REQUEST}"} \
diff --git a/openshift/templates/deploy.dc.yaml b/openshift/templates/deploy.dc.yaml
index 32f98cd31..b413488ca 100644
--- a/openshift/templates/deploy.dc.yaml
+++ b/openshift/templates/deploy.dc.yaml
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ parameters:
     value: "False"
   - name: VANITY_DOMAIN
     requests: True
+  - name: WORKERS_PER_CORE
+    description: "Number of workers per core. e.g. openshift pods report having 32 cores, so 0.125 would give you 4 workers total."
+    value: "0.125"
 objects:
   - apiVersion: v1
     kind: DeploymentConfig
@@ -103,7 +106,7 @@ objects:
                 - name: PORT # The port that the API will run on (used by fastapi docker image)
                   value: "8080"
                 - name: WORKERS_PER_CORE # The number of worker per code (used by fastapi docker image)
-                  value: "0.25"
+                  value: ${WORKERS_PER_CORE}
                 - name: "TIMEOUT" # https://github.com/tiangolo/uvicorn-gunicorn-fastapi-docker#timeout
                   valueFrom:
                     configMapKeyRef: