Is it worth the hassle to add Ansible just for initial VPS configurations?
Currently I have manual process of provisioning new VPS instances. I'm not completely set on the provider so I don't want to waste time to automate this part. After manually adding new VPS I have one simple bash script that does the initial setup for me: system updates, tools install, firewall config, user config etc. After that my process is going through Gitlab CI, where I deploy my containers through ssh.
I'm wondering if in this simple process I should even consider introducing Ansible, are there any significant benefits that I'm missing out?
UPDATE:
Thanks all, for the great feedback, tried Ansible and it's and it's amazing, currently integrating it with my pipeline.
For people in my place there are two quick start very informative nb tutorials:
