diff --git a/.renovate/grafanaDashboards.json5 b/.renovate/grafanaDashboards.json5
index 79c35f81..8cdffbe6 100644
--- a/.renovate/grafanaDashboards.json5
+++ b/.renovate/grafanaDashboards.json5
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     {
       description: "Process Grafana dashboards",
       customType: "regex",
-      fileMatch: ["(^|/)kubernetes/.+\\.ya?ml$"],
+      fileMatch: ["/(^|/)kubernetes/.+\\.ya?ml$/"],
       matchStrings: [
         'depName="(?<depName>.*)"\\n(?<indentation>\\s+)gnetId: (?<packageName>\\d+)\\n.+revision: (?<currentValue>\\d+)'
       ],
diff --git a/.renovaterc.json5 b/.renovaterc.json5
index a060850a..6ace0020 100644
--- a/.renovaterc.json5
+++ b/.renovaterc.json5
@@ -32,23 +32,23 @@
   // NOTE: forward slashes do not need escaping on Renovate, and a proper escape backslash needs double backslashes because JSON moment
   "ignorePaths": ["**/archive/**", "**/.archive/**", "**/**.sops.**", "./.git", "**/ignore/**"],
   "flux": {
-    "fileMatch": ["^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$"]
+    "fileMatch": ["/^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$/"]
   },
   "helm-values": {
-    "fileMatch": ["^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$"]
+    "fileMatch": ["/^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$/"]
   },
   "kubernetes": {
-    "fileMatch": ["^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$"]
+    "fileMatch": ["/^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$/"]
   },
   "kustomize": {
-    "fileMatch": ["^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$"]
+    "fileMatch": ["/^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$/"]
   },
   "customManagers": [
     {
       "description": ["Process various other dependencies"],
       "customType": "regex",
       // "fileMatch": ["^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$", "vyos/], // process regex from everywhere
-      "fileMatch": [".*"], // process regex from everywhere
+      "fileMatch": ["/.*/"], // process regex from everywhere
       "matchStrings": [
         // Example: `k3s_release_version: "v1.27.3+k3s1"` (general regex matcher)
         "datasource=(?<datasource>\\S+) depName=(?<depName>\\S+)( versioning=(?<versioning>\\S+))?\n.*?\"(?<currentValue>.*)\"\n",
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     {
       "description": ["app-template schemas"],
       "customType": "regex",
-      "fileMatch": ["^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$"],
+      "fileMatch": ["/^kube/.+\\.ya?ml$/"],
       "matchStrings": [
         "\\# yaml\\-language\\-server\\: \\$schema\\=https\\:\\/\\/raw\\.githubusercontent\\.com\\/(?<packageName>[\\w\\-]+\\/[\\w\\-]+)\\/(?<currentValue>app\\-template\\-[\\d\\.]+)"
       ],