What’s new with the OVHcloud Developer Advocate team - April 2026

Every month, the OVHcloud Developer Advocate team creates content, shares knowledge, and connects with the tech community. Here’s a look at what we did in April 2026. 🚀

🎙️ “Tranches de Tech” – Our monthly podcast

A new episode of our French-language podcast Tranches de Tech 🥑 just dropped!

🎧 Episode 27: Tranches de Tech 26 – Poppy au service des autres

This episode of Tranches de Tech features Annabelle Koster, who shares her journey from tech recruiter to community ambassador, highlighting how she overcame impostor syndrome by actively learning and engaging with developers. She emphasizes the importance of community, conferences, and volunteering in building meaningful connections and personal growth. The discussion also explores the evolving role of AI as a productivity tool in her daily work. Ultimately, the episode underlines that, despite technological advances, human interaction, sharing, and mutual support remain at the heart of the tech ecosystem.

📺 Live on Twitch

We streamed live on Twitch this month! Here’s what we covered:
🎥 Rémy Vandepoel discussed with Antonin Anchisi and Aurélie Vache about our Manages Kubernetes Service (MKS) and some feedbacks about the KubeCon Europe 2026.
Catch the replay on YouTube ▶️.

🎤 Conference Talks

The team hit the road (and the stage) at several conferences this month:

🇫🇷 MiXiT – Lyon, France 🇫🇷

Aurélie Vache gave a talk: Comprendre Kubernetes de manière visuelle

Stéphane Philippart gave a workshop: Développer avec l’IA : et si c’était aussi simple qu’ajouter une librairie ?

🇫🇷 Devoxx France – Paris, France 🇫🇷

Aurélie Vache gave a talk: Question pour un cluster Kubernetes : Quiz sur Kubernetes & ses concepts

Stéphane Philippart gave a talk and a workshop (with Mathieu Busquet):
– 🤖 Apprendre à notre IA à … apprendre 🧠
– Développer avec l’IA : et si c’était aussi simple qu’ajouter une librairie ?

📝 Our latest blog posts

Here are the articles our team published on the OVHcloud Blog this month.

📝 Extract Text from Images with OCR using Python and OVHcloud AI Endpoints — by Stéphane Philippart

This blog post explains how to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) using a vision-capable language model via AI Endpoints and Python. It shows that, instead of traditional OCR tools, developers can send images directly to a multimodal model using the OpenAI-compatible API to extract text while preserving layout. The tutorial walks through a simple Python script, including environment setup, image encoding in base64, and API calls. Overall, it highlights how modern vision LLMs simplify OCR workflows, making text extraction more flexible and easier to implement.

📝 Discover the External Secret Operator (ESO) OVHcloud Provider to manage your Kubernetes secrets 🎉 – by Aurélie Vache

This blog post introduces a new provider for the External Secrets Operator (ESO) that integrates directly with OVHcloud Secret Manager, simplifying how secrets are handled in Kubernetes. It explains how ESO works by synchronizing secrets from external systems into Kubernetes and automatically updating them when changes occur. The tutorial walks through the full setup, including creating a secret in OVHcloud, configuring authentication, and deploying resources like ClusterSecretStore and ExternalSecret. Overall, the article highlights how this new provider streamlines secret management and improves integration between OVHcloud services and Kubernetes environments.

📝 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam: feedback and highlights by Aurélie Vache and Rémy Vandepoel

The post highlights KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 as strongly shaped by the rise of AI, pushing cloud-native toward an “AI-native” paradigm. OVHcloud emphasizes sovereign cloud principles, focusing on openness, reversibility, and performance. The event featured rich technical discussions, demos, and exchanges around Kubernetes and demanding workloads. It also underscored the importance of open-source collaboration within the CNCF ecosystem. Finally, OVHcloud’s booth and activities aimed to make these topics more accessible and tangible.

🗓️ Coming up next

Here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming next.

🗓️ – May, 6 & 7 – Devoxx UK, in London

🎤 Stéphane Philippart is giving one talk (Wednesday the 6th at 6PM): 🧰 Dev Containers: the ultimate toolbox for developers?

🗓️ New “Tranches de Tech” podcast episode

🎧 All episodes are available on Ausha and all your favorite podcast applications!

💬 Stay in Touch

Want to chat with us, share your thoughts, or just say hi? Here’s how to get in touch with the Developer Advocate team:

🟣 Discord: OVHcloud Discord server
🐦 X / Twitter: @OVHcloud
💼 LinkedIn: OVHcloud LinkedIn
🐙 GitHub: github.com/ovh

See you next month! 👋

Stéphane Philippart

Once a developer, always a developer!
Java developer for many years, I have the joy of knowing JDK 1.1, JEE, Struts, ... and now Spring, Quarkus, (core, boot, batch), Angular, Groovy, Golang, ...
For more than ten years I was a Software Architect, a job that allowed me to face many problems inherent to the complex information systems in large groups.
I also had other lives, notably in automation and delivery with the implementation of CI/CD chains based on Jenkins pipelines.
I particularly like sharing and relationships with developers and I became a Developer Relation at OVHcloud.
This new adventure allows me to continue to use technologies that I like such as Kubernetes or AI for example but also to continue to learn and discover a lot of new things.
All the while keeping in mind one of my main motivations as a Developer Relation: making developers happy.
Always sharing, I am the co-creator of the TADx Meetup in Tours, allowing discovery and sharing around different tech topics.