Metanet Digital said on Jan. 27 it signed a contract with the Korea Local Information Research and Development Institute (KLID) for a “cloud-based next-generation local tax disaster recovery system construction project” and has begun full-scale system building.

Through the project, Metanet Digital will build a disaster recovery (DR) structure for a container-based private cloud platform.

The project aims to leverage the structural advantages of a cloud platform to lay the groundwork for ensuring continuity of administrative services even during disasters. In particular, Metanet Digital said it will introduce an “active-active” disaster recovery structure for the first time in the public sector to minimise service disruptions even when failures or disasters occur.

Metanet Digital plans to expand a Red Hat OpenShift-based container private cloud platform and apply TmaxTibero, a South Korean database management system (DBMS), to secure stability and reliability suited to public-sector environments.

Using its own CI/CD (continuous integration and deployment) solution, MetaCICD, it will build an automated development and deployment structure that enables the same applications to be deployed and operated in real time at both the main centre and the disaster recovery centre. It also plans to design the system so network policies and operating standards remain consistent even in a redundant environment.

Metanet Digital plans to secure a flagship example of a “cloud-based standard DR architecture model” through the project and to gradually expand it to central government agencies and major public service areas.

Chang-yeol Lee (이창열), chief executive of Metanet Digital, said, “This project is the starting point for public-sector DR to move beyond a backup-centred structure and transition to a system that responds proactively.” He said, “Based on the performance of building South Korea’s largest cloud DR, Metanet Digital will lead a shift in the public-sector DR paradigm that evolves into an AI-based autonomous crisis management system.”