Repository Exclusive: Conan

Even with a great setup, teams encounter friction. Here are solutions to frequent issues with an exclusive Conan repository:

Without exclusivity, your builds are vulnerable to "dependency drift." Imagine a scenario: your team maintains a private fork of libcurl with security patches. Your conan remotes list includes both your private server and Conan Center. One day, Conan Center publishes a newer version of libcurl. When your CI pipeline runs, Conan might pull the newer, incompatible version from Center because it appears first in the search order. Pitfall: "Disk space on the exclusive server is exploding

The Conan repository exclusive solves this in three critical ways:

You have three primary options for hosting an exclusive Conan repository. Choosing the right one depends on your team size and budget.