After months of dedicated work, we are thrilled to launch the new Conan 2 Essentials course, which is now fully available.

This new course has been created from the ground up to cover the fundamental features and best practices of Conan 2. It will provide you with the essential knowledge needed to start working with the tool effectively, whether you are a new user or migrating from a previous version.

A Hands-On, Free, and Self-Paced Course

This course is designed to be a practical learning experience. There’s a dedicated GitHub repository with the source code that you will use throughout the lessons to apply the concepts with hands-on examples, allowing you to experiment firsthand with the features of Conan 2.

The course is completely free and available for you to take at your own pace, with no schedules or deadlines.

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What Will You Learn in ‘Conan 2 Essentials’?

The course consists of 16 video lessons, totaling over two hours of content. It follows a logical progression, starting with the most common scenario: consuming packages to build a simple application with CMake. From there, you’ll explore the basic anatomy of a conanfile.py and other fundamental topics like settings, options, profiles, Conan’s PackageID system, and even cross-compilation. The journey then continues into the core of package creation, where you’ll build your own libraries, manage dependencies, and finally learn how to use and upload your packages to an Artifactory repository, giving you enough hands-on experience to startworking with Conan as part of your daily development process.

Start Learning Today!

Don’t wait any longer to modernize your C++ dependency management skills. The course is complete and waiting for you.

➡️ Register for free for the ‘Conan 2 Essentials’ course on JFrog Academy

What’s Next? The Advanced Course is on its Way

While our focus today is on the “Essentials” course launch, we want to let you know that we are already working on the next chapter: Conan 2 Advanced. This course will explore more complex scenarios and advanced features. You will learn to streamline local development workflows with editable packages, master advanced versioning and lockfiles, and unlock Conan’s full potential through its extensibility and customization features. We will be releasing lessons incrementally over the coming months, aiming to have the full course ready by the end of this year.

As always, your feedback is crucial to us. If you have any questions or suggestions during the course, please don’t hesitate to open an issue in the Conan Training GitHub repository.

We hope you enjoy the new content!