Using DSC partial configurations
PowerShell V5 introduced a new extension to DSC known as partial configurations. A partial configuration is a DSC configuration that makes up part of a given node's overall desired state. Each node can then pull (and apply) some or all of those partial configurations.
Partial configurations allow you to share the configuration of a node between multiple teams. For example, you might want the central IT team to define the basic configuration of a node. Another team could be responsible for deploying a web application to that same node. The alternative is to have a single MOF document fully describing a node's desired state, which can be organizationally challenging.
To support partial configurations, you configure a node's LCM to define the partial configurations that the node should pull and how the node is to be configured. Each partial configuration can be either pushed or pulled as appropriate. This provides considerable flexibility in deploying DSC partial...
