Important: If you omit the etag when you call postureDeployments.patch, then the updated deployment unconditionally overwrites the existing deployment.
Required. Identifier. The name of the posture deployment, in the format organizations/{organization}/locations/global/postureDeployments/{deployment_id}.
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