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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​

  • 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​