blumeops/docs/tutorials/tutorials.md

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title: Tutorials
modified: 2026-02-07
tags:
  - tutorials
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# Tutorials

Learning-oriented guides for understanding and working with BlumeOps.

## Audience Guide

Each tutorial indicates which audiences it serves:

| Icon | Audience | Description |
|------|----------|-------------|
| **Owner** | Erich | Quick recall and operational refreshers |
| **AI** | Claude/AI agents | Context for AI-assisted operations |
| **Reader** | External readers | Understanding what BlumeOps is |
| **Contributor** | Operators/contributors | Helping with BlumeOps development |
| **Replicator** | Replicators | Building your own similar setup |

## Getting Started

| Tutorial | Audiences | Description |
|----------|-----------|-------------|
| [[exploring-the-docs]] | All | How to navigate and use this documentation |
| [[ai-assistance-guide]] | AI, Owner | Context for effective AI-assisted operations |

## Contributing

| Tutorial | Audiences | Description |
|----------|-----------|-------------|
| [[contributing]] | Contributor | Your first contribution to BlumeOps |
| [[adding-a-service]] | Contributor, Replicator | Deploy a new service via ArgoCD |

## Replication

For those building their own homelab GitOps setup.

| Tutorial | Audiences | Description |
|----------|-----------|-------------|
| [[replicating-blumeops]] | Replicator | Overview: building a similar environment |
| [[tailscale-setup|Tailscale Setup]] | Replicator | Setting up Tailscale networking |
| [[core-services|Core Services]] | Replicator | Forgejo and container registry |
| [[kubernetes-bootstrap|Kubernetes Bootstrap]] | Replicator | Bootstrapping a Kubernetes cluster |
| [[argocd-config|ArgoCD Config]] | Replicator | Configuring GitOps with ArgoCD |
| [[observability-stack|Observability Stack]] | Replicator | Metrics, logs, and dashboards |