diff --git a/overlays/dev-ollama/kustomization.yaml b/overlays/dev-ollama/kustomization.yaml
index 416cad9..b544cf8 100644
--- a/overlays/dev-ollama/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/overlays/dev-ollama/kustomization.yaml
@@ -3,9 +3,17 @@ kind: Kustomization
 
 resources:
   - ollama.yaml
-  - ollama-models-configmap.yaml
   - ollama-model-pull-job.yaml
   - openwebui-pvc.yaml
   - openwebui-deploy.yaml
   - openwebui-svc.yaml
   - openwebui-ing.yaml
+
+configMapGenerator:
+  - name: ollama-models
+    namespace: chatbot
+    files:
+      - models.txt=models.txt
+
+generatorOptions:
+  disableNameSuffixHash: true
diff --git a/overlays/dev-ollama/models.txt b/overlays/dev-ollama/models.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00e9ead
--- /dev/null
+++ b/overlays/dev-ollama/models.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# One model per line. Lines beginning with '#' are comments.
+tinyllama
+qwen2.5-coder:7b
+llama3.2:1b
diff --git a/overlays/dev-ollama/ollama-models-configmap.yaml b/overlays/dev-ollama/ollama-models-configmap.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index b0abacd..0000000
--- a/overlays/dev-ollama/ollama-models-configmap.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: ConfigMap
-metadata:
-  name: ollama-models
-  namespace: chatbot
-data:
-  models.txt: |
-    tinyllama
-    qwen2.5-coder:7b
-    llama3.2:1b