Very cool :) J.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 6:22 PM Zhe-You Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kaxil, > > I just checked out the staged site of the official Provider Registry, and > it looks super impressive! The UX is excellent, and it’s definitely a big > plus for users to find existing community integrations for their use cases > and involve more Airflow users. I really appreciate your effort, and I will > check out the PR when it comes out. > > Best regards, > Jason > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 1:09 AM Kaxil Naik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > *tl;dr*: I'm proposing an official Provider Registry for the Airflow > > project, deployed at https://airflow.apache.org/registry/. > > > > Preview is up at https://airflow.staged.apache.org/registry/ -- take a > > look > > and let me know what you think. > > > > PR to Airflow repo incoming in a couple of hours :) > > > > *Why now* > > With AIP-95 approved, Airflow now has a formal provider lifecycle: > > incubation, production, mature, and deprecated. That opens the door for > > accepting more community-built providers and giving them an official > home, > > while setting clear expectations about maturity and support. But > lifecycle > > stages only work if users can actually see them. > > > > Right now, there's no place on airflow.apache.org where someone can > browse > > providers, check their lifecycle stage, or discover what modules they > ship. > > > > This registry fills that gap. It gives the PMC a tool to communicate > > provider maturity to users, and it gives the community an official way to > > surface new providers -- clearly labelled with their lifecycle stage. > > > > *What it does* > > The registry currently catalogs 99 providers and 1,648 modules across all > > 11 module types (operators, hooks, sensors, triggers, transfers, > executors, > > notifiers, secret backends, logging handlers, Dag bundles, and > decorators). > > > > It's built with Eleventy <https://www.11ty.dev/> (thanks Ash, for the > > suggestion and for prototyping an approach with it) and auto-generated > > directly from the provider.yaml files in the repo -- no separate data > > pipeline, no manual curation. When a provider is added or updated, the > next > > CI build picks it up automatically. > > > > The entire registry is a static site (HTML, CSS, JS): no server, no > > database, same deployment model as the existing Airflow docs. It's > > generated at build time from the provider.yaml files and served from S3 > via > > CloudFront. > > > > *A few things you can do with it*: > > > > - Search across all providers and modules (Cmd+K, powered by Pagefind) > > - Browse by category (Cloud, Databases, AI & ML, etc.) > > - Filter/sort by lifecycle stage, downloads, module count > > - Explore provider detail pages with per-version module listings, > > connection types, parameters, and install commands > > - Access JSON API endpoints (/api/providers.json, /api/modules.json) > for > > programmatic access -- useful for AI agents and tooling > > > > > > The design is deliberately discovery-first: it links out to the API > > reference docs and user guides rather than hosting everything itself. > This > > avoids duplicating content between provider docs and registry entries. > > > > CI/CD is integrated with our existing docs pipeline and syncs to S3 > > automatically. Nothing in provider code, provider.yaml schemas, core > > Airflow, or the docs build is changed by this. > > > > *How it relates to the Astronomer Registry* > > Many of you know the Astronomer Registry (https://registry.astronomer.io > ), > > which has been the go-to for discovering Airflow providers for years. Big > > thanks to Astronomer and Josh Fell for building and maintaining it. > > > > This new registry is designed to be a community-owned successor on > > airflow.apache.org, with the eventual goal of redirecting > > registry.astronomer.io traffic here once it's stable. > > > > > > *Remaining work* > > Still to do after this lands: > > > > - apache/airflow-site PR for .htaccess rewrite and a "Registry" nav > link > > - Redirect registry.astronomer.io traffic once the official one is > > stable > > - A way to add third-party providers that are not in the Airflow repo, > > like Great Expectations, Cosmos etc - I have a POC working on this. > > > > > > *Future ideas (will create GH issues)* > > > > - Explicit categories in provider.yaml (currently keyword-based > > matching) > > - LLM-friendly exports (llms.txt, "Copy for AI" buttons etc.) > > - Example DAGs for each Provider. > > - and many more – but I think the current state is valuable enough > > already > > > > > > I'd appreciate feedback and reviews! > > > > Regards, > > Kaxil > > >
