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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.

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## 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.