SP 2016 deployment failing to deploy, 1805

{"code":"DeploymentFailed","message":"At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-debug for usage details.","details":[{"code":"Conflict","message":"{\r\n \"status\": \"Failed\",\r\n \"error\": {\r\n \"code\": \"ResourceDeploymentFailure\",\r\n \"message\": \"The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'.\",\r\n \"details\": [\r\n {\r\n \"code\": \"VMExtensionProvisioningError\",\r\n \"message\": \"VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'ConfigureSPServer'. Error message: DSC Configuration 'InstallAndConfigureSharePointServer' completed with error(s). Following are the first few: **The user does not exist or is not unique. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Cannot perform security configuration because the configuration database does not exist. You must create or join to a configuration database before doing security configuration.**\"\r\n }\r\n ]\r\n }\r\n}"}]}