A similar tool I switched to from ansible for my personal project is https://pressly.github.io/sup. Ansible felt heavy and restrictive for my small project (lots of abstractions to learn and APIs on top of that for extensibility if those abstractions don't meet your needs).
sup on the other hand has a very small surface area of things needed to learn if you're familiar with shell scripting. I would definitely recommend it for smaller projects.
sup on the other hand has a very small surface area of things needed to learn if you're familiar with shell scripting. I would definitely recommend it for smaller projects.