This document summarizes a presentation about automating MySQL operations with Puppet. It discusses: - Why automation is important for consistency, security, and disaster recovery. Manual changes can introduce bugs and inconsistencies. - Puppet is an open source configuration management tool that can be used to automate MySQL configuration, users, backups, replication, and high availability clustering with tools like Corosync/Pacemaker. - Puppet modules define the desired state and Puppet ensures the actual state matches by making necessary changes. This provides auditability and change tracking through version control of Puppet code.