diff --git a/src/Bicep.Core.IntegrationTests/Files/RegistryProviderTests/HttpProvider/types/index.json b/src/Bicep.Core.IntegrationTests/Files/RegistryProviderTests/HttpProvider/types/index.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..65460fac59c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Bicep.Core.IntegrationTests/Files/RegistryProviderTests/HttpProvider/types/index.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"Resources":{"request@v1":{"RelativePath":"v1/types.json","Index":12}},"Functions":{}}
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diff --git a/src/Bicep.Core.IntegrationTests/Files/RegistryProviderTests/HttpProvider/types/v1/types.json b/src/Bicep.Core.IntegrationTests/Files/RegistryProviderTests/HttpProvider/types/v1/types.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..49d1d686c4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Bicep.Core.IntegrationTests/Files/RegistryProviderTests/HttpProvider/types/v1/types.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[{"1":{"Kind":1}},{"1":{"Kind":2}},{"1":{"Kind":3}},{"1":{"Kind":4}},{"1":{"Kind":5}},{"1":{"Kind":6}},{"1":{"Kind":7}},{"1":{"Kind":8}},{"6":{"Value":"raw"}},{"6":{"Value":"json"}},{"5":{"Elements":[8,9]}},{"2":{"Name":"request@v1","Properties":{"uri":{"Type":4,"Flags":1,"Description":"The HTTP request URI to submit a GET request to."},"format":{"Type":10,"Flags":0,"Description":"How to deserialize the response body."},"method":{"Type":4,"Flags":0,"Description":"The HTTP method to submit request to the given URI."},"statusCode":{"Type":3,"Flags":2,"Description":"The status code of the HTTP request."},"body":{"Type":0,"Flags":2,"Description":"The parsed request bodyz."}}}},{"4":{"Name":"request@v1","ScopeType":0,"Body":11,"Flags":0}}]
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diff --git a/src/Bicep.Core.IntegrationTests/RegistryProviderTests.cs b/src/Bicep.Core.IntegrationTests/RegistryProviderTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a32b91635ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Bicep.Core.IntegrationTests/RegistryProviderTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+// Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using System.Web.Services.Description;
+using Bicep.Core.Registry;
+using Bicep.Core.Samples;
+using Bicep.Core.UnitTests;
+using Bicep.Core.UnitTests.Assertions;
+using Bicep.Core.UnitTests.Utils;
+using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
+using IOFileSystem = System.IO.Abstractions.FileSystem;
+
+namespace Bicep.Core.IntegrationTests;
+
+[TestClass]
+public class RegistryProviderTests : TestBase
+{
+    private static ServiceBuilder GetServiceBuilder(IContainerRegistryClientFactory clientFactory)
+        => new ServiceBuilder()
+            .WithFeatureOverrides(new(ExtensibilityEnabled: true))
+            .WithContainerRegistryClientFactory(clientFactory);
+
+    [TestMethod]
+    [Ignore("In true TDD fashion, the functionality to fix this test is yet to be implemented")]
+    public async Task Providers_published_to_a_registry_can_be_compiled()
+    {
+        var registry = "example.azurecr.io";
+        var registryUri = new Uri($"https://{registry}");
+        var repository = $"test/provider/http";
+
+        // types taken from https://github.com/Azure/bicep-registry-providers/tree/21aadf24cd6e8c9c5da2db0d1438df9def548b09/providers/http
+        var outputDirectory = FileHelper.SaveEmbeddedResourcesWithPathPrefix(
+            TestContext,
+            typeof(RegistryProviderTests).Assembly,
+            "Files/RegistryProviderTests/HttpProvider");
+
+        var indexJson = Path.Combine(outputDirectory, "types/index.json");
+
+        var (clientFactory, _) = DataSetsExtensions.CreateMockRegistryClients(false, (registryUri, repository));
+        await DataSetsExtensions.PublishProviderToRegistryAsync(new IOFileSystem(), clientFactory, indexJson, $"br:{registry}/{repository}:1.2.3");
+
+        var result = CompilationHelper.Compile(GetServiceBuilder(clientFactory), """
+provider 'br:example.azurecr.io/test/provider/http@1.2.3'
+
+resource dadJoke 'request@v1' = {
+  uri: 'https://icanhazdadjoke.com'
+  method: 'GET'
+  format: 'json'
+}
+
+output joke string = dadJoke.body.joke
+""");
+
+        // TODO fix the below and assert that the template contents are correctly formatted
+        result.Should().NotHaveAnyDiagnostics();
+        result.Template.Should().NotBeNull();
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/src/Bicep.Core.Samples/DataSetsExtensions.cs b/src/Bicep.Core.Samples/DataSetsExtensions.cs
index 684ea8ec39c..3d06aaeb3db 100644
--- a/src/Bicep.Core.Samples/DataSetsExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/Bicep.Core.Samples/DataSetsExtensions.cs
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Collections.Immutable;
 using System.IO;
+using System.IO.Abstractions;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@
 using Bicep.Core.Modules;
 using Bicep.Core.Registry;
 using Bicep.Core.Registry.Oci;
+using Bicep.Core.Registry.Providers;
 using Bicep.Core.Semantics;
 using Bicep.Core.SourceCode;
 using Bicep.Core.UnitTests;
@@ -180,6 +182,22 @@ public static async Task PublishModuleToRegistryAsync(IContainerRegistryClientFa
             await dispatcher.PublishModule(targetReference, stream, sourcesStream, documentationUri);
         }
 
+        public static async Task PublishProviderToRegistryAsync(IFileSystem fileSystem, IContainerRegistryClientFactory clientFactory, string pathToIndexJson, string target)
+        {
+            var dispatcher = ServiceBuilder.Create(s => s.WithDisabledAnalyzersConfiguration()
+                .AddSingleton(clientFactory)
+                .AddSingleton(BicepTestConstants.TemplateSpecRepositoryFactory)
+                .AddSingleton(BicepTestConstants.FeatureProviderFactory)
+                ).Construct<IModuleDispatcher>();
+
+            var targetReference = dispatcher.TryGetArtifactReference(ArtifactType.Provider, target, PathHelper.FilePathToFileUrl(pathToIndexJson)).IsSuccess(out var @ref) ? @ref
+                : throw new InvalidOperationException($"Invalid target reference '{target}'. Specify a reference to an OCI artifact.");
+
+            var tgzStream = await TypesV1Archive.GenerateProviderTarStream(fileSystem, pathToIndexJson);
+
+            await dispatcher.PublishProvider(targetReference, tgzStream);
+        }
+
         private static Uri RandomFileUri() => PathHelper.FilePathToFileUrl(Path.GetTempFileName());
     }
 }