Is there a way to set hook using CLI?

[ChloeSartorelli]

I came across a need to add a hook to a DDEV project for the first time today. I tend to build all of my projects identically, so I have a script that does all the setup for me. I wanted to add hooks using this script, but I can't see an option for adding hooks using ddev config.

Is there a way to add hooks using the ddev CLI? Or do I have to add these to the .ddev/config.yaml file manually?
I was expecting something like the composer config repositories.foo syntax.

I'm happy to open an issue with a feature request if this doesn't exist but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something first.

In the meantime I can of course work around this by parsing the yaml file, updating it, and writing it back.

[rfay]

Hi @GuySartorelli -

I've always felt that hooks were too complex to package successfully into a command-line argument. I think people would struggle.

But you can do things like this:

echo '
hooks:
  post-start:
    - exec: echo "hi there"
' > .ddev/config.hooks.yaml

[ChloeSartorelli]

Oh neat, I didn't know you could merge configs like that. Thanks! That's a good approach for this.

[rfay]

https://docs.ddev.com/en/stable/users/extend/customization-extendibility/#extending-configyaml-with-custom-configyaml-files