Ansible is wonderful. I'd strongly consider it if I wasn't against the idea of having interesting enough dotfiles to version. What I do with RasPi servers is

Ansible is wonderful. I'd strongly consider it if I wasn't against the idea of having interesting enough dotfiles to version. What I do with RasPi servers is I make a pull and a push playbook that live in a repo, which let me deploy what I have onto a new server, and pull any changes made in server web GUIs into the repo where I can commit them. Then of course any other random periodic task also becomes an Ansible task. If I had a use case for lots of random little scripts on my main machine, I think I'd choose Ansible over bash where practical, you get so many tools premade, and you can run local or remote all the same.