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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

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.
• Explore concrete VDC Use Cases.
• When you’re ready to deploy, follow the Mycelium Cloud Getting Started guide to spin up your first cluster.