I am a firm believer in Puppet.  I can't imagine provisioning a network of environments without it.  Getting started with Puppet is a mixed bag though, and finding a simple all in one for a master and client setup can be tough.  Vagrant makes setting this up easy though, you can get a master and couple of clients up and running in no time all on virtual infrastructure.  Here is a Vagrantfile I wrote to get a couple of CentOS base boxes dancing together using puppet:

https://gist.github.com/stanlemon/5649465