Google wants to buy cloud-native software company D2iQ, formerly Mesosphere, to bring its Kubernetes offerings in house, according to an Axios report.

Axios, citing “a source close to the situation,” reports that D2iQ would be valued north of $250 million, but less than its $775 million valuation following its Series D round in 2018. However, at least one board member opposed the deal, Axios says.

Neither Google nor D2iQ responded to requests for comment.

Mesosphere, which was one of the first vendors to release a container orchestration platform with its Marathon product that ran inside of DC/OS, last year changed its name to D2iQ (stands for “day two IQ”). The name change reflected its changing focus, from helping companies set up their cloud-native infrastructure to “day two” challenges of running that infrastructure in a production environment, CEO Mike Fey said at the time. In addition to changing its name, the company also went all in on Kubernetes.

Google, meanwhile, originally developed Kubernetes before open sourcing the technology in 2014. Since then it has become the de facto container orchestrator and a managed Kubernetes platform and tools have become must-haves for cloud providers and enterprise infrastructure vendors alike. To this end IBM paid $34 billion to buy Red Hat, in a deal that closed last year, and VMware over the past couple years spent several billion dollars to bolster its Kubernetes assets. And earlier today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Server container support in the Azure Kubernetes Service.

Buying D2iQ could help Google better target developers, Axios reports. And indeed the No. 3 cloud provider has been on a buying spree under CEO Thomas Kurian in his first year on the job, spending billions on acquisitions in its quest to catch up to No. 1 Amazon and No. 2 Microsoft

In February Google acquired Cornerstone Technology, a software company that migrates customers’ mainframe workloads to the cloud. And late last year it scooped up CloudSimple, which migrates on-premises VMware-based workloads into public clouds.

In addition to the two cloud migration companies, Google’s acquisitions include no-/low-code application development platform provider AppSheet, enterprise file storage startup Elastifile, data analytics provider Looker, and security startup (and sister company) Chronicle.