I don't know if it is a hard requirement that the sops config file is exactly .sops.yaml for it to be auto-discovered, or if it should accept the alternative .yml extension too, but it took me a while to realize this was the issue I was having.

So, it might be good to have a warning in the docs stating that it should match exactly to save some time to anyone facing the same issue. Or even better would be to allow the file to have either of those extensions.

I think the code where the name is defined to match that specific file name is here just for reference.

Thank you for the great work!