This makes me think of the now defunct https://github.com/SUSE/machinery

Indeed! I'm showing my age, but I do remember using this with Puppet and it was one of my inspirations :D (no commits in nearly 13 years, ouch) https://github.com/devstructure/blueprint

	▲	heliostatic 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes! I always thought that was a very clever project, and was sad when it ceased development. Very excited to try this out, and glad to have stayed on Debian all these years.