Excellent work Kaxil!
This is absolutely transformative for the Airflow user community and the
integrations effort

Vikram

On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 10:47 PM Amogh Desai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Looks amazing, thanks for working on this, Kaxil.
>
> I already see it to be super useful instead of going into manhunting
> on the Airflow docs and google searches.
>
> Looking forward to see how this one will be adopted in the future.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Amogh Desai
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 1:34 AM Jens Scheffler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > +1 into "Very cool" category. The rest of Airflow site immediately feels
> > like 1980 :-D
> >
> > On 20.02.26 23:37, Kaxil Naik wrote:
> > > PR: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/62261
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 at 21:50, Pavankumar Gopidesu <
> > [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Woohoo, what an update , thanks kaxil, it's really nice :)
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 9:12 PM Vincent Beck <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> 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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