Automatic installation of software on the server?

Question

Chef

There is data for joining a Linux server of a certain version.
I want to configure it remotely, but not by hand, but automatically.
So far I have a provision.sh that does everything.
Conditions:
- you cannot install additional software on a managed machine, which will be a client of some installation program;
- demons cannot be installed on the control machine from which the server will be installed. I want to do everything only in the terminal with commands.
- I don't need to build something from the sources, I want to use the distribution packages.
Chef, puppet briefly looked - they want servers on the control machine and agents on the managed one.
chef-solo must run on a managed one.
chef and puppet don't fit?
It seems to fit ansible.
And am I sure I'm not foolish?

Answer 1

If you have less than five, let's say, then a regular script is enough and troubles with ansible most likely will not pay off.
If more, then you should already think about ansible