infrastructure-as-cattle VS foreman

It's old because I haven't updated it (had done it for a specific project), but you can look at this repo for an example.

I have learned the Hashicorp stack (Packer, Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Vault) over the last 2-3 months. I'm having some issues with Nomad/Consul, but Packer and Terraform are the most useful tools I've learned in a long time - take a look at my repo for an example.

I was confused because there is https://github.com/ddollar/foreman and https://github.com/theforeman/foreman

In case you're unable to use intune, a free approach might be https://theforeman.org/ That works well for provisioning baremetal windows (with discovery image or pxe boot) once you've set it up. It supports script access as well as a nice hierarchy for configurations. But it's really not as well documented as it should be.

I use the foreman with puppet and pxe/kickstart scripts to automate VM/baremetal provisioning etc.

It comes from the remote execution user snippet: https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/blob/develop/app/views/unattended/provisioning_templates/snippet/remote_execution_ssh_keys.erb

KVM & Foreman

Might want to look into https://theforeman.org/ if it's not too complex for you

The iso images are typically locked at a certain verison. The update repositories sounds like what you are looking for to cache updates. Look into theforeman.org and specifically the plugin Katello. This is an upstream for Red Hat's Satellite product. Another option would be Canonical's MAAS. Both of these options Sound like what you are headed for unless you really just mean synchronize into a folder and store the images in which case yeah.....just use rsync.

Alternatively, you can use Foreman+Katello, the upstream base of Satellite, to get started in learning the platform. You can also use the component matrix to use the versions that most closely resemble Satellite.