Merge pull request #7758 from chef/btm/target-mode

Initial target_mode implementation

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/application/client.rb b/lib/chef/application/client.rb
index 31932b812c..2c63a54f33 100644
--- a/lib/chef/application/client.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/application/client.rb
@@ -301,6 +301,15 @@ class Chef::Application::Client < Chef::Application
     description: "Use cached cookbooks without overwriting local differences from the #{Chef::Dist::SERVER_PRODUCT}.",
     boolean: false
 
+  option :target,
+    short: "-t TARGET",
+    long: "--target TARGET",
+    description: "Target #{Chef::Dist::PRODUCT} against a remote system or device",
+    proc: lambda { |target|
+      Chef::Log.warn "-- EXPERIMENTAL -- Target mode activated, resources and dsl may change without warning -- EXPERIMENTAL --"
+      target
+    }
+
   IMMEDIATE_RUN_SIGNAL = "1".freeze
   RECONFIGURE_SIGNAL = "H".freeze
 
@@ -351,6 +360,12 @@ class Chef::Application::Client < Chef::Application
     Chef::Config.chef_zero.host = config[:chef_zero_host] if config[:chef_zero_host]
     Chef::Config.chef_zero.port = config[:chef_zero_port] if config[:chef_zero_port]
 
+    if config[:target] || Chef::Config.target
+      Chef::Config.target_mode.enabled = true
+      Chef::Config.target_mode.host = config[:target] || Chef::Config.target
+      Chef::Config.node_name = Chef::Config.target_mode.host unless Chef::Config.node_name
+    end
+
     if Chef::Config[:daemonize]
       Chef::Config[:interval] ||= 1800
     end