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-# To get started with Dependabot version updates, you'll need to specify which
-# package ecosystems to update and where the package manifests are located.
-# Please see the documentation for all configuration options:
-# https://docs.github.com/github/administering-a-repository/configuration-options-for-dependency-updates
-version: 2
-updates:
-  - package-ecosystem: "gomod" # See documentation for possible values
-    directory: "/" # Location of package manifests
-    schedule:
-      interval: "daily"
-    commit-message:
-      prefix: "chore"
-    labels:
-      - "kind/chore"
-      - "area/dependency"
-    groups:
-      k8s:
-        patterns:
-          - "k8s.io/*"
-          - "go.opentelemetry.io/*"
-
-  - package-ecosystem: "gomod" # See documentation for possible values
-    directory: "/internal/tools" # Location of package manifests
-    schedule:
-      interval: "daily"
-    commit-message:
-      prefix: "chore"
-    labels:
-      - "kind/chore"
-      - "area/ci"
-
-  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions" # See documentation for possible values
-    directory: "/" # Location of package manifests
-    schedule:
-      interval: "daily"
-    commit-message:
-      prefix: "chore"
-    labels:
-      - "kind/chore"
-      - "area/ci"