You should check out Nixos. You make a config file that you can just copy over to as many machines as you want.
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That or Ansible, if you will have a machine to deploy from
You don't need a machine to deploy from. You just need a git repo and Ansible pull. It will pulldown and run playbooks against the host. (Use the self target to run it on the local machine)
Use configuration tooling such as Ansible.
You also could build a image builder to build your system. You could utilize things like docker and or Ansible to repeatedly get to the same result.
I have the exact same workflow except I have two images: one for legacy/MBR and another for EFI/GPT -- once I read your post I was glad to see I'm not alone haha!
I did the same, exactly the way you did but my "zygote" isnt as advanced.
I should make a raw ISO too, but currently I just use Clonezilla (which shrinks and resizes automatically) and have a small SSD with a nearly vanilla system.
Just because the Fedora ISO didnt boot
You might be able to script something with Debootstrap. I tested Bcachefs on a spare device once and couldn't get through the standard Debian install process, so I ended up using a live image to Debootstrap the drive. You should be able to give a list of packages to install and copy over configs to the partition.
Ansible and docker would work nicely for this
I believe that Proxmox does this because I have installed/created containers from their available images. I wonder how they create those container images?
There are many way to make a image
This is designed for Gentoo but I've used it for Ubuntu before: https://github.com/TheChymera/mkstage4/