--- title: Best CNCF posts — January 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted CNCF posts from January 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/cncf/best-of/2026/01 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/cncf/best-of/2026/01 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best CNCF posts — January 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted CNCF posts from January 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of CNCF — January 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/opencost-reflecting-on-2025-and-looking-ahead-to-2026-37ost4qpm "OpenCost: Reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead to 2026") Article CNCF · 34w OpenCost: Reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead to 2026 OpenCost, a CNCF incubating project for Kubernetes cost management, released 11 versions in 2025 with major features including Prometheus-optional operation, an AI-powered MCP server for natural language cost queries, and improved cloud provider support. The project expanded through mentorship programs that delivered integration testing, the MCP server, and KubeModel for Data Model 2.0\. Looking ahead to 2026, priorities include completing KubeModel, adding AI usage costing features, and enhancing supply chain security. 43 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-kthena-llm-inference-for-the-cloud-native-era-honeqoore "Introducing Kthena: LLM inference for the cloud native era") Article CNCF · 32w Introducing Kthena: LLM inference for the cloud native era Kthena is a new open-source sub-project of Volcano designed for LLM inference orchestration on Kubernetes. It addresses production challenges like low GPU/NPU utilization, latency-throughput tradeoffs, and multi-model management through intelligent routing, KV Cache-aware scheduling, and Prefill-Decode disaggregation. The system includes a high-performance router and controller manager that support topology-aware scheduling, gang scheduling, autoscaling, and multiple inference engines (vLLM, SGLang, Triton). Benchmarks show 2.73x throughput improvement and 73.5% TTFT reduction compared to random routing. Backed by Huawei Cloud, China Telecom, DaoCloud, and other industry partners. 30 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/viettel-joins-cncf-as-a-gold-member-aezyxtpyy "Viettel joins CNCF as a Gold Member") Article CNCF · 35w Viettel joins CNCF as a Gold Member Viettel, Vietnam's largest telecommunications and technology group, has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a Gold Member. The company operates one of Southeast Asia's largest open source cloud infrastructures with extensive production deployments of OpenStack and Kubernetes supporting enterprise, government, and critical national infrastructure workloads. Viettel will contribute operational expertise from telecom environments and real-world experience operating cloud native platforms at national scale, with focus on security, data sovereignty, and large-scale production reliability. 30 2 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-announces-dragonfly-s-graduation-0rvfxzpjq "CNCF Announces Dragonfly’s Graduation") Article CNCF · 34w CNCF Announces Dragonfly’s Graduation Dragonfly, a cloud native image and file distribution system, has graduated from CNCF after demonstrating production readiness and widespread adoption. The project uses peer-to-peer technology to distribute container images, OCI artifacts, and AI models at scale, saving up to 90% storage bandwidth and reducing launch times from minutes to seconds. Major organizations including Ant Group, Alibaba, Datadog, DiDi, and Kuaishou use Dragonfly to power large-scale container and AI workloads. Since joining CNCF, the project has seen over 3,000% growth in code contributions, expanding from 45 contributors across 5 companies to 271 contributors across 130+ companies. 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