diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 336240fcb5..a8942b24d9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 /data/kata-collect-data.sh
 /kata-netmon
 /kata-runtime
+/pkg/katautils/config-settings.go
 /virtcontainers/hack/virtc/virtc
 /virtcontainers/hook/mock/hook
 /virtcontainers/profile.cov
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 33da90a9b0..377ed94dc5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ endef
 
 
 GENERATED_FILES += $(CLI_DIR)/config-generated.go
+GENERATED_FILES += pkg/katautils/config-settings.go
 
 $(TARGET_OUTPUT): $(SOURCES) $(GENERATED_FILES) $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | show-summary
 	$(QUIET_BUILD)(cd $(CLI_DIR) && go build $(KATA_LDFLAGS) $(BUILDFLAGS) -o $@ .)
diff --git a/pkg/katautils/config-settings.go b/pkg/katautils/config-settings.go.in
similarity index 93%
rename from pkg/katautils/config-settings.go
rename to pkg/katautils/config-settings.go.in
index 37464b93da..aaf78cc3f9 100644
--- a/pkg/katautils/config-settings.go
+++ b/pkg/katautils/config-settings.go.in
@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ const defaultTemplatePath string = "/run/vc/vm/template"
 const defaultVMCacheEndpoint string = "/var/run/kata-containers/cache.sock"
 
 // Default config file used by stateless systems.
-var defaultRuntimeConfiguration = "/usr/share/defaults/kata-containers/configuration.toml"
+var defaultRuntimeConfiguration = "@CONFIG_PATH@"
 
 // Alternate config file that takes precedence over
 // defaultRuntimeConfiguration.
-var defaultSysConfRuntimeConfiguration = "/etc/kata-containers/configuration.toml"
+var defaultSysConfRuntimeConfiguration = "@SYSCONFIG@"
 
 var name = "kata"
 var defaultProxyPath = "/usr/libexec/kata-containers/kata-proxy"