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The Ukrainian IT market is moving into the next phase of development, with business and government institutions increasingly seeking to reduce dependency on closed vendor ecosystems and transition to open, managed platforms, and against this background, container technologies are gaining particular relevance, as they can expand the capabilities of traditional virtualisation systems.
During the IT Resilience & Cyber Strategy forum in September, a microservice platform was presented, which is built on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, deployed using DELL reference architecture, and adapted for Ukrainian realities. This solution serves as a modern alternative to classic virtualisation solutions, combining the flexibility of Kubernetes, the enterprise-grade reliability of Red Hat, and optimised DELL infrastructure.
Why This Is Important
The platform includes built-in services that are easily integrated into existing IT infrastructure, such as cybersecurity, test and deployment automation, and operation across any cloud infrastructure, and in combination with DELL hardware, located directly within a Ukrainian data center, the solution forms a foundation for private and hybrid clouds that complies with the requirements of Ukrainian legislation and certification standards.
Business expects flexibility, continuity, and the ability to instantly respond to challenges from IT, and based on my experience, most Ukrainian companies still rely on classical monolithic virtualization systems, where any change requires weeks of work, and scaling demands additional investment in team and equipment, but microservice architecture eliminates these limitations by offering independent scaling, resilience against failures, and flexibility in development and deployment
notes Serhii Zabirka, CTO of PARKOVYI Data Center
Change processes in the corporate and public sectors are often slow, requiring lengthy approvals and protracted manual work, and under these conditions, launching new services or scaling infrastructure leads to additional costs and an increasing load on teams that are already scarce in the market. The microservice model addresses these issues by allowing each system component to function, update, and scale separately without affecting other parts of the infrastructure, and this approach ensures predictable costs, stability, and resilience even in the event of failures, while also enabling the quick launch of new services and the testing of updates without stopping core systems.
How the New Generation Container Platform Works
The solution based on OpenShift includes tools for testing and deployment automation and built-in security services. In a private cloud, the platform creates a unified environment for various teams to work, supports hybrid scenarios, integration with public clouds, and the launch of AI workloads. This approach increases the speed of updates, minimises the risks of human errors, and ensures centralised management.
Particular attention has been paid to adaptation for Ukrainian conditions: the data center ensures power resilience, communication channel redundancy, and operation even during blackouts, which is critically important for the state and corporate sectors—services remain accessible and data protected, and finally, deployment within the facilities of the PARKOMY Data Center guarantees the necessary level of physical security and compliance with information protection standards.
Ukrainian Adaptation and Prospects
The transition to container and microservice architectures in the Ukrainian IT sector demonstrates systematic development and the gradual adoption of modern practices. Such platforms provide the opportunity to build internal clouds, develop a DevOps culture, shorten time-to-market, and ensure stable operation even during peak loads.
It is important that the localized solution complies with Ukrainian legislation regarding data processing and storage, including ISO, KSZI (Complex System of Information Protection), and PCI DSS, which is key for government and financial institutions. Furthermore, deployment within a Ukrainian data center guarantees full control over information flows and contributes to the strengthening of digital sovereignty.
In combination with local data centres, this forms a new level of digital autonomy for Ukrainian business, as microservice architecture is not merely modernisation, but a strategic step towards resilience, flexibility, and long-term development. In the future, such solutions can become the foundation of a national cloud ecosystem, where the state, business, and technology partners will jointly create secure, independent, and scalable next-generation digital services.
