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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0
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Learn PowerShell Core 6.0

by David das Neves, Jan-Hendrik Peters
July 2018
Beginner
552 pages
13h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Composite

The last item on the list of resources is the composite resource. The composite resource actually plays a special role in the DSC universe. A composite resource consists of one or more configurations that fulfill generic tasks and are mainly used to abstract some of the complexity of DSC, or aid developers with shipping their application.

Take a complex SQL Always On configuration which is needed to support applications. The developer knows how they want their database to look, but doesn't necessarily care much about the infrastructure layer beyond that. As an Ops person, you can provide this infrastructure layer as a composite resource that only takes a few simple parameters, such as DatabaseName, Collation, and PreferredSite

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