If you're more comfortable doing it another way, I totally understand preferring that route.

That said, the documentation on this project is really good. I didnt understand ansible before picking it up. At this point, I'm not at a level where I could write a playbook from scratch, but I can certainly read through it and understand what's going on and make changes to my config accordingly.

This playbook takes care of all the reverse proxies for you, so theres no need to do anything like that yourself.

If you have more questions, feel free to ask, and I'll try to answer them as best I can