Very cool indeed :) I can see it very useful for users!

On 2026/02/20 20:04:58 Jarek Potiuk wrote:
> 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
> > >
> >
> 

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