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+# VDC Blueprints & Example Environments
+
+This section presents opinionated "blueprints" you can use as starting points for your own Virtual Data Centers.
+
+## Digital Me – Personal Sovereign Cloud Workspace
+
+Adapted from the **Cloud Blueprint** on the main Mycelium site, *Digital Me* is a personal cloud environment showcasing what’s possible on top of the Mycelium Stack.
+
+### Goal
+
+Provide a private, extensible workspace where:
+
+- Your documents, files, and communication tools live on infrastructure you choose.  
+- You can integrate additional services or agents over time.  
+- Everything is reachable securely via Mycelium Network.
+
+### Core Components
+
+A typical Digital Me blueprint might include:
+
+- **Cryptpad** – End‑to‑end encrypted document collaboration.  
+- **Gitea** – Git hosting, code review, and lightweight DevOps.  
+- **Nextcloud** – File storage, sync, and basic productivity apps.  
+- **Matrix (Elements)** – Real‑time chat and rooms.  
+- **Stallwart** – Mail, calendar, and contacts.  
+- **Video Conferencing** – LiveKit or Jitsi, optionally integrated with Matrix or Nextcloud.  
+- **SSO / Identity** – A unifying login layer (future iteration).
+
+Each service runs as one or more Kubernetes workloads inside your VDC.
+
+### How It Fits Together
+
+```mermaid
+graph TD
+    A[Mycelium Network] --> B[VDC (K3s Cluster)]
+    B --> C[Apps: Cryptpad, Gitea, Nextcloud, Matrix, Stallwart, Video]
+    C --> D[Your Devices]
+
+    D -. secure overlay .- A
+```
+
+- Your devices connect via Mycelium Network.  
+- Services are exposed only via overlay addresses or controlled gateways.  
+- Data can be stored on QSFS or other resilient storage options.
+
+### Customizing the Blueprint
+
+You can adapt Digital Me by:
+
+- Swapping apps (e.g. another Git forge instead of Gitea).  
+- Adding specialized tools (design collaboration, analytics, etc.).  
+- Scaling vertically (larger nodes) or horizontally (more nodes) as usage grows.  
+- Integrating Mycelium Agents in the future to automate workflows.
+
+## Other Blueprint Ideas
+
+The same VDC primitives can be used for many patterns:
+
+- **Team Collaboration Hub** – Shared docs, code, chat, CI/CD for a startup or studio.  
+- **Research Environment** – Compute + storage for data science, notebooks, and pipelines.  
+- **Edge Application Stack** – Regional VDCs running local services that sync to a core.
+
+Blueprints are not prescriptive; they’re **starting points** that help you think in terms of composable services.
+
+---
+
+## Next Steps
+
+- Learn more about **VDC capabilities** in the **[VDC Overview](/vdc)**.  
+- Explore concrete **[VDC Use Cases](/vdc/use-cases)**.  
+- When you’re ready to deploy, follow the **[Mycelium Cloud Getting Started guide](/cloud/getting-started)** to spin up your first cluster.