This document discusses using Vagrant and provisioning tools like Puppet, Ansible, and PuPHPet.com to configure and provision virtual machines for local development. Vagrant provides a layer on top of virtual machine providers like VirtualBox to manage virtual machines via commands and configuration files. Provisioning tools like Puppet, Ansible, and PuPHPet.com can be used to automate the installation and configuration of software on Vagrant virtual machines. PuPHPet.com is a web interface that generates Puppet manifests and Vagrant configurations for common LAMP stack configurations.