This document provides an overview of DevOps and Puppet for automating infrastructure management. It discusses how DevOps involves collaboration between development, QA, and operations teams. Puppet is introduced as infrastructure as code tool that allows defining and enforcing a machine's state through code. It works by installing agents on nodes that fetch configuration files (manifests) and enforce the specified configuration. The document highlights Puppet's capabilities for Windows systems and provides examples of common resource types and modules for managing Windows servers through Puppet.