As is the case with homelab in general, it’s pretty simple and easy to get the basics, but Ansible can scale up to enterprise-grade complexity if you really want to go down a rabbit hole. For what you’re describing, I think you’ll find it to be pretty straightforward.

Ansible is definitely worth exploring. As usual, there are a million tutorials on YouTube that will walk you through a quick deployment and some basic playbooks, but if you want a more fulsome understanding and deeper overview, I’d look at Techworld with Nana’s Ansible course. She’s extremely thorough, and she has a bunch of other videos that might give you some ideas on how to clean up your lab, especially since you’re starting fresh.