diff --git a/docs/docs/configuration.md b/docs/docs/configuration.md
index c2b415a..ae5b480 100644
--- a/docs/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/docs/configuration.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Configuration
 
-*infra-tester* uses [**YAML**](https://yaml.org/) as its configuration language and supports most of YAML 1.1 and 1.2, including support for anchors, tags, map merging, etc. When *infra-tester* is run, it looks for a `config.yaml` file in the current directory to run the tests.
+*infra-tester* uses [**YAML**](https://yaml.org/) as its configuration language and supports most of YAML 1.1 and 1.2, including support for anchors, tags, map merging, etc. When *infra-tester* is run, it looks for a `.infra-tester-config.yaml` file in the current directory to run the tests.
 
 The configuration for *infra-tester* has the following structure:
 
diff --git a/docs/docs/extending_infra_tester.md b/docs/docs/extending_infra_tester.md
index 812e59a..073acc8 100644
--- a/docs/docs/extending_infra_tester.md
+++ b/docs/docs/extending_infra_tester.md
@@ -281,9 +281,9 @@ This section shows an example package that provides two plugins:
     --8<-- "example/plugin-example/pyproject.toml"
     ```
 
-=== "Usage in config.yaml"
+=== "Usage in .infra-tester-config.yaml"
 
-    ```yaml linenums="42" title="example/config.yaml"
+    ```yaml linenums="42" title="example/.infra-tester-config.yaml"
     ...
       - name: ExamplesCustomAssertions
         apply:
diff --git a/docs/docs/writing_tests.md b/docs/docs/writing_tests.md
index 9075e5c..4fb06f4 100644
--- a/docs/docs/writing_tests.md
+++ b/docs/docs/writing_tests.md
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ A basic test would be a regular expression matching to make sure the output
 adheres to the RFC 3339 format. Let's see how we can write such a test using
 *infra-tester*.
 
-Let's create a `config.yaml` file in the same directory where we created the
+Let's create a `.infra-tester-config.yaml` file in the same directory where we created the
 Terraform file and copy the below code into it. See the annotation next
 to the code to understand what it does.
 
-```yaml title="config.yaml" linenums="1"
+```yaml title=".infra-tester-config.yaml" linenums="1"
 test_plan:
   name: Time #(1)
   tests: # (2)
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ The above configuration is all that's required to test the use case we mentioned
 ## Running the Tests
 
 Change the working directory to the same directory where you created the Terraform
-file and the `config.yaml` file and run
+file and the `.infra-tester-config.yaml` file and run
 
 ```shell
 infra-tester -test.v
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Let's modify the regular expression so that it's invalid and see what happens.
 To make it invalid let's remove the first two opening brackets, so the
 line would then be:
 
-```yaml title="config.yaml" linenums="10"
+```yaml title=".infra-tester-config.yaml" linenums="10"
             regex: ^?:(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})T(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}(?:\.\d+)?))(Z|[\+-]\d{2}:\d{2})?)$
 
 ```
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ easy-to-catch issues. This leads to a better developer experience.
 Let us now try to pass it a valid regular expression but one that doesn't
 adhere to RFC 3339. Let's modify the line to the following:
 
-```yaml title="config.yaml" linenums="10"
+```yaml title=".infra-tester-config.yaml" linenums="10"
             regex: ^((?:T(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}(?:\.\d+)?))(Z|[\+-]\d{2}:\d{2})?)$
 ```
 
diff --git a/example/config.yaml b/example/.infra-tester-config.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from example/config.yaml
rename to example/.infra-tester-config.yaml
diff --git a/src/main_test.go b/src/main_test.go
index 3903d3c..1ab5806 100644
--- a/src/main_test.go
+++ b/src/main_test.go
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ func runApplyAssertions(
 }
 
 func getTests() (TestPlan, error) {
-	yamlConfig, err := os.ReadFile("config.yaml")
+	yamlConfig, err := os.ReadFile(".infra-tester-config.yaml")
 	if err != nil {
 		return TestPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("failed to read yaml config: %v", err)
 	}