Common language, process standardization, portability… These are all notions that Gaspard Plantrou, Numspot’s product manager, leans on to tout “the digital independence enabled by Kubernetes.”
This mindset is reflected in the company’s latest announcement. Numspot has decided to push beyond the OUTSCALE foundation by delivering a Red Hat–style control plane that unifies the management of infrastructure environments.
Kubernetes will serve as the backbone of this platform, which will encompass managed services and data/AI functions (models, agents, and RAG), all through a single console and unified APIs. A marketplace of preconfigured services will be attached to it. Numspot plans to roll this out in Europe with infrastructure providers, aligning with national references equivalent to SecNumCloud. A white-label sales approach is being explored. Talks are underway with firms in Germany, Spain, and Italy.
The entire initiative is expected to take shape in the second half of 2026. Numspot promises a dynamically adjustable trust level, starting with its OUTSCALE infrastructure, composed of a sovereign eu-west region and a cloud-gov region undergoing SecNumCloud qualification (J1 approved in spring, J2 audit recently completed).
Around ten reference clients/projects
For now, three years after its inception, Numspot lists the following services in its catalog:
- Management: console and IaC
- Compute: VMs and NVIDIA GPUs
- Networking: VPC, public IPs, VPN, DirectLink, load balancer
- Storage: block, object, snapshots
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Containers: Kubernetes and OpenShift
- Security/Identity: IAM
An observability block (logging and metrics) is on the roadmap. The lineup also includes a container registry, a VM image catalog, BYOK, MongoDB and a Redis‑like service, a KMS, a WAF, and CI/CD (GitLab).
Numspot lists 25 partners, including 10 publishers (ALLONIA, CEO-Vision, Cleyrop, CobolCloud, Denodo, Docaposte, Energisme, Red Hat, Veeam, and VirtualBrowser). It also names around ten reference clients/projects, spanning finance/insurance, healthcare, and the public sector:
- CISIRH (Interministerial Center for IT Services Related to Human Resources)
- CNP Assurances
- Docaposte
- Domelior (home health care services; a small Breton company)
- ERAFP (Public Service Additional Pension)
- Maisons France services
- M.I.A. Seconde (adaptive learning application for general secondary school teachers)
- Pavillon de la Mutualité (mutualist health services offering in Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
- Perfecto Groupe (Francilian creative agency)
- National Civic Service
- Union Retraite (GIP bringing together mandatory, basic and supplementary retirement bodies)
