Pivotal Software Inc. is doubling down on the popular Kubernetes container orchestration service with the alpha release today of a new version of its Pivotal Application Service.

Pivotal Application Service is a software application development platform based on the open-source Cloud Foundry project, which provides a range of clouds, developer frameworks and app services to work with. The idea is to make it easier for developers to build, test, deploy and scale up their apps on a variety of cloud platforms.

With PAS on Kubernetes, the Cloud Foundry-based platform adds more functionality for developers who want to containerize their software apps and make them more agile. Essentially, the service will allow developers to go “all-in” on Kubernetes, the company said.

The company has already embraced Kubernetes with its Pivotal Container Service, which was launched by Pivotal and its sister company VMware Inc. last year. PKS, as that service is known, helps developers manage numerous Kubernetes clusters at scale by handling many of the complex configuration tasks.

With the launch of PAS on Kubernetes, some of its core features are being extended to PKS as well. These include a new alpha release of Pivotal Build Service, which automates the creation of container images and provides additional security and auditing tools. RabbitMQ for Kubernetes is a new messaging system that’s used to communicate between PAS services and the applications it hosts, and to connect to third-party services like Twitter or PayPal.

Pivotal Service Mesh, which is used to help automate networking infrastructure, is also being added to PKS.

“Kubernetes has won the container platform wars and Pivotal’s continued rollout of new capabilities is a clear sign of that,” said Holger Mueller, principal analyst and vice president of Constellation Research Inc. “Pivotal customers are also moving to Kubernetes, so this is an important move for the company to remain relevant with its CloudFlundry platform-as-a-service and its Spring development framework.”

Pivotal recently updated PKS to version 1.4, adding support for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud and other features. Chad Sakac, Pivotal’s senior vice president of Pivotal Container Service and Dell Tech Alliance, discussed the new release during an interview on SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, theCUBE, during April’s Dell Tech World event:

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