I don’t understand what you’re saying Jay, the normal way of installing a plugin is to clone it in an after_code block?
This works for me, I am curious what the bad configuration looks like?
## Plugins go here
## see https://meta.discourse.org/t/19157 for details
hooks:
after_code:
- exec:
cd: $home/plugins
cmd:
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-fontawesome-pro.git