chef/puppet/ansible/salt and autodesk maya and windows 10

You can always create a deployment using the maya installer and then run a powershell "for" loop (or create a gpo) to push it out to all your workstations. That is probably the "easiest" if you are starting from nothing and want local installs. After you are going to want some sort of launcher to run a single usersetup.py file so that you can standardize plugins, shelves, etc.. on a shared drive.

Rough example of a looped local install:

That being said you are going to want to setup some sort of deployment/standardization solution as mentioned in your subject but that is a bigger can of worms with each having their own set of pros and cons.

Search the sysadmins list for a few threads where they are debated/compared.