I used a d1 mini for simplicity, but it works with a bunch of boards. It’s built into home assistant.
My use case is HVAC monitoring (two for heat and two for AC), so I have four ds18b20, the leads are just soldered together on plugged into 5v, ground and D4 using a dev board, resistance and few jumpers.
You pretty much define the sensors in yaml in a similar way you did with home assistant.
An portion of the definition in esphome for that board:
