diff --git a/.github/workflows/load.yml b/.github/workflows/load.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..05125ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/load.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: load
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - v*
+    branches:
+      - main
+  pull_request:
+jobs:
+  load-tests:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Run the Service
+      run: make run-background
+    - name: Wait for the Service to be ready
+      run: |
+        while [[ "$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w ''%{http_code}'' localhost/ready)" != "200" ]]; do sleep 5; done
+    - name: Configure Test
+      run: |
+        cat << EOF > loadtest-config.yml
+          url: http://localhost:8080
+          SLOs:
+            http/error-rate: 0
+            http/latency-p99.9: 5
+        EOF
+    - uses: iter8-tools/iter8-action@v1
+      with:
+        chart: load-test-http
+        valuesFile: loadtest-config.yml 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 013f614..2b092a8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -21,10 +21,17 @@ tests:
 
 docker-compose:
 	docker compose up -d mysql
+	sleep 15
 	docker compose up airport-lookup-example
 
+docker-compose-background:
+	docker compose up -d mysql
+	sleep 15
+	docker compose up -d airport-lookup-example
+
 run: build docker-compose
 run-nobuild: docker-compose
+run-background: build docker-compose-background
 
 clean:
 	rm -rf functions/build