diff --git a/app/artifact-cas/README.md b/app/artifact-cas/README.md
index 41aa59e67..0a152c8d4 100644
--- a/app/artifact-cas/README.md
+++ b/app/artifact-cas/README.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Refer to [development guide](../../devel/README.md) for more information but in
 ```
 # Run external dependency (Vault for secret management)
 
-docker compose -f devel/docker-compose.yml up
+docker compose -f devel/compose.yml up
 
 # Run the service
 make -C app/artifact-cas run
diff --git a/app/artifact-cas/configs/config.devel.yaml b/app/artifact-cas/configs/config.devel.yaml
index 8844a7488..26433100f 100644
--- a/app/artifact-cas/configs/config.devel.yaml
+++ b/app/artifact-cas/configs/config.devel.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Configuration file meant to be used in the development environment.
 # it assumes some services are running in the host machine, like vault
-# Please make sure you run those via the convenience docker-compose file
-# [root]/devel/docker-compose.yaml
+# Please make sure you run those via the convenience docker compose file
+# [root]/devel/compose.yml
 server:
   http:
     addr: 0.0.0.0:8001
diff --git a/app/controlplane/README.md b/app/controlplane/README.md
index 06a417f22..eff680698 100644
--- a/app/controlplane/README.md
+++ b/app/controlplane/README.md
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Refer to [development guide](../../devel/README.md) for more information but in
 ```
 # Run external dependencies (Dex for OIDC, bitnami/postgreSQL container for persistence and Vault for secret management)
 
-docker compose -f devel/docker-compose.yml up
+docker compose -f devel/compose.yml up
 
 # Run the control plane
 make -C app/controlplane run
diff --git a/app/controlplane/configs/config.devel.yaml b/app/controlplane/configs/config.devel.yaml
index ae35d5271..505cee543 100644
--- a/app/controlplane/configs/config.devel.yaml
+++ b/app/controlplane/configs/config.devel.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Configuration file meant to be used in the development environment.
 # it assumes some services are running in the host machine, like vault
-# Please make sure you run those via the convenience docker-compose file
-# [root]/devel/docker-compose.yaml
+# Please make sure you run those via the convenience docker compose file
+# [root]/devel/compose.yml
 server:
   http:
     addr: 0.0.0.0:8000
diff --git a/devel/docker-compose.yml b/devel/compose.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from devel/docker-compose.yml
rename to devel/compose.yml