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 | `KO_DOCKER_REPO` | (not set)                                  | Container repository where to push images built with `ko` (required)                                                                                                                                                             |
 | `KO_GO_PATH`     | `go`                                       | `go` binary to use for builds, relative or absolute path, otherwise looked up via $PATH (optional)                                                                                                                               |
-| `KO_CONFIG_PATH` | `./ko.yaml`                                | Path to `ko` configuration file (optional)                                                                                                                                                                                       |
+| `KO_CONFIG_PATH` | `./.ko.yaml`                               | Path to `ko` configuration file (optional)                                                                                                                                                                                       |
 | `KOCACHE`        | (not set)                                  | This tells `ko` to store a local mapping between the `go build` inputs to the image layer that they produce, so `go build` can be skipped entirely if the layer is already present in the image registry (optional).             |
 
 ## Naming Images