diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs_spread.yaml b/.github/workflows/docs_spread.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..323130614
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs_spread.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+name: Automated spread testing
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+    - 'docs/tutorial/getting-started.md'
+  schedule:
+    - cron: 0 9 * * 1 # At 09:00 UTC on Monday, aligned with the weekly haproxy stable release.
+
+jobs:
+  docs-checks:
+    uses: canonical/operator-workflows/.github/workflows/docs_spread.yaml@main
+    secrets: inherit
+    with:
+      input-file: docs/tutorial/getting-started.md
+      output-dir: tests/spread/tutorial
+      spread-job: github-ci:ubuntu-24.04:tests/
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c08ae9c7e..6326091fe 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -32,3 +32,5 @@ terraform/**/*.tfstate*
 haproxy-route-policy/db.sqlite3
 haproxy-route-policy/.python-version
 
+tests/spread/tutorial/
+**/.spread-reuse*
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/getting-started.md b/docs/tutorial/getting-started.md
index 7cdeb1f64..9bdd156fa 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/getting-started.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/getting-started.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ In this tutorial we'll deploy the HAProxy charm to provide ingress to a backend
 You will need a working station, e.g., a laptop, with AMD64 architecture. Your working station
 should have at least 4 CPU cores, 8 GB of RAM, and 50 GB of disk space.
 
+<!-- SPREAD SKIP -->
+
 ````{tip}
 You can use Multipass to create an isolated environment by running:
 ```
@@ -16,6 +18,8 @@ multipass launch 24.04 --name charm-tutorial-vm --cpus 4 --memory 8G --disk 50G
 ```
 ````
 
+<!-- SPREAD SKIP END -->
+
 This tutorial requires the following software to be installed on your working station
 (either locally or in the Multipass VM):
 
@@ -69,6 +73,10 @@ juju integrate haproxy:certificates self-signed-certificates
  
 Once all the application has settled into an "Idle" state, we can verify by sending a request to the HAProxy's IP address:
 
+<!-- SPREAD
+juju wait-for application haproxy --query='status=="active"' --timeout 10m
+-->
+
 ```sh
 HAPROXY_IP=$(juju status --format json | jq -r '.applications.haproxy.units."haproxy/0"."public-address"')
 curl $HAPROXY_IP
@@ -100,6 +108,10 @@ juju integrate pollen haproxy:haproxy-route
 
 Let's check that the request has been properly proxied to the backend service using the `pollinate` script:
 
+<!-- SPREAD
+juju wait-for application haproxy --query='status=="active"' --timeout 10m
+-->
+
 ```sh
 HAPROXY_IP=$(juju status --format json | jq -r '.applications.haproxy.units."haproxy/0"."public-address"')
 echo "$HAPROXY_IP pollen.internal" | sudo tee /etc/hosts
@@ -125,7 +137,7 @@ Well done! You've successfully completed the HAProxy tutorial.
 To remove the model environment you created, use the following command:
 
 ```
-juju destroy-model haproxy-tutorial
+juju destroy-model haproxy-tutorial --no-prompt
 ```
 
 ## Next steps
diff --git a/spread.yaml b/spread.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b15cc34e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spread.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Canonical Ltd.
+# See LICENSE file for licensing details.
+
+project: haproxy-operator-tests
+
+backends:
+  github-ci:
+    type: adhoc
+
+    allocate: |
+      echo "Allocating ad-hoc $SPREAD_SYSTEM"
+      if [ -z "${GITHUB_RUN_ID:-}" ]; then
+        FATAL "this back-end only works inside GitHub CI"
+        exit 1
+      fi
+      echo 'ubuntu ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/99-spread-users
+      ADDRESS localhost:22
+    discard: |
+      echo "Discarding ad-hoc $SPREAD_SYSTEM"
+    systems:
+      # username and password are required because docs-spread.yaml creates a new user (ubuntu:ubuntu)
+      # Before tests are ran.
+      - ubuntu-24.04:
+          username: ubuntu
+          password: ubuntu
+          workers: 1
+
+suites:
+  tests/spread/:
+    summary: Automated spread testing
+    systems:
+      - ubuntu-24.04
+
+path: /home/spread/proj
+kill-timeout: 1h