diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index b22b2c205..64d61e73c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fail_ci_if_error: true
           token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}
-  test_independent:
+
+  cluster:
     name: "Test in a dask cluster"
     needs: build
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -153,7 +154,8 @@ jobs:
           pytest tests
         env:
           DASK_SQL_TEST_SCHEDULER: tcp://127.0.0.1:8786
-  test_import:
+
+  import:
     name: "Test importing with bare requirements"
     needs: build
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -188,3 +190,43 @@ jobs:
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
           python -c "import dask_sql; print('ok')"
+
+  conda:
+    name: "Test building the conda package"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Set up Python
+        uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v2
+        with:
+          miniforge-variant: Mambaforge
+          use-mamba: true
+          python-version: 3.8
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          mamba install conda-build conda-verify
+
+          which python
+          pip list
+          mamba list
+      - name: Build conda package
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' || github.repository != 'dask-contrib/dask-sql' }}
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        run: |
+          # suffix for nightly package versions
+          export VERSION_SUFFIX=`date +%y%m%d`
+
+          mamba build continuous_integration/recipe --no-anaconda-upload
+      - name: Build and upload conda package
+        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' && github.repository == 'dask-contrib/dask-sql' }}
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+        env:
+          ANACONDA_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DASK_CONDA_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          # suffix for nightly package versions
+          export VERSION_SUFFIX=`date +%y%m%d`
+
+          mamba build continuous_integration/recipe --label dev
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 51786832f..e50a5f1d5 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -22,4 +22,5 @@ repos:
       - id: trailing-whitespace
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
       - id: check-yaml
+        exclude: ^continuous_integration/recipe/
       - id: check-added-large-files
diff --git a/continuous_integration/recipe/meta.yaml b/continuous_integration/recipe/meta.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7c7b2e210
--- /dev/null
+++ b/continuous_integration/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+{% set name = "dask-sql" %}
+{% set version = environ.get('GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG', '0.0.0.dev') + environ.get('VERSION_SUFFIX', '') %}
+{% set py_version=environ.get('CONDA_PY', 36) %}
+
+
+package:
+  name: {{ name|lower }}
+  version: {{ version }}
+
+source:
+  git_url: ../..
+
+build:
+  noarch: python
+  number: {{ GIT_DESCRIBE_NUMBER }}
+  string: py{{ py_version }}_{{ GIT_DESCRIBE_HASH }}_{{ GIT_DESCRIBE_NUMBER }}
+  script: {{ PYTHON }} -m pip install . --no-deps -vv
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - maven >=3.6.0
+  host:
+    - pip
+    - python >=3.6
+    - setuptools_scm
+  run:
+    - python >=3.6
+    - dask >=2.19.0,!=2021.3.0
+    - pandas >=1.0.0
+    - jpype1 >=1.0.2
+    - openjdk >=8
+    - fastapi >=0.61.1
+    - uvicorn >=0.11.3
+    - tzlocal >=2.1
+    - prompt_toolkit >=3.0.8
+    - pygments >=2.7.3
+    - nest-asyncio >=1.0.0
+
+test:
+  commands:
+    - pip check
+  requires:
+    - pip
+
+about:
+  home: https://github.com/dask-contrib/dask-sql
+  summary: SQL Query Layer for dask
+  license: MIT
+  license_file: LICENSE.txt
diff --git a/continuous_integration/recipe/run_test.py b/continuous_integration/recipe/run_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ca97261b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/continuous_integration/recipe/run_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import dask.dataframe as dd
+import pandas as pd
+
+from dask_sql import Context
+
+c = Context()
+
+data = """
+name,x
+Alice,34
+Bob,
+"""
+
+df = pd.DataFrame({"name": ["Alice", "Bob", "Chris"] * 100, "x": list(range(300))})
+ddf = dd.from_pandas(df, npartitions=10)
+c.create_table("my_data", ddf)
+
+got = c.sql(
+    """
+    SELECT
+        my_data.name,
+        SUM(my_data.x) AS "S"
+    FROM
+        my_data
+    GROUP BY
+        my_data.name
+"""
+)
+expect = pd.DataFrame({"name": ["Alice", "Bob", "Chris"], "S": [14850, 14950, 15050]})
+
+dd.assert_eq(got, expect)