This document discusses provisioning development environments using DevOps tools like Vagrant and Puppet. It introduces Vagrant as a way to create reproducible and portable virtual environments. Puppet is then presented as an automation tool to configure and manage the resources and applications within those environments. The document provides a high-level example of using these tools together to provision a load-balanced web application backed by MongoDB. It aims to demonstrate how DevOps practices like automation and cooperation between development and operations can help address challenges like frequent deployment and onboarding new team members.