dockerpi VS raspberry-pi-ansible

https://github.com/lukechilds/dockerpi : RPi 1, (2,3,) in QEMU emulating ARM64 on x86_64

E.g. the Fedora Silverblue rpm-ostree distro has toolbox by default because most everything should be in a container:

To make the emulated environment more realistic, we can use dockerpi to emulate different Raspberry Pi models.

According to the issue here https://github.com/lukechilds/dockerpi/pull/4

telling : "You can mount your own image into the docker container and any changes will be persistent inside that image: https://github.com/lukechilds/dockerpi#usage"

Just googling for "Virtual RPi" gives me: dockerpi, and some QEMU based thing.

This isn't exactly what you asked for, but in my experimentation with prebaking images, I've had success with using this docker image to run scripts that had to be run from pis themselves without actually needing physical pis.

As someone already said, Ansible is exactly what you need. I uploaded on my GitHub just yesterday a set of Ansible roles that I use to make the initial setup on my Raspberry Pi's, it's pretty basic but it might help you: https://github.com/Nicuz/raspberry-pi-ansible Check out all the roles, you could use this repo as a boilerplate to make your own playbook since it includes all the basic thing you probably need :)