Permit dual use of portainer agent for local and swarm modes

[ndouba-malleum]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I'd like to be able to deploy a stack and a docker compose file by reusing the same docker infrastructure we have at work. In some cases, containers need to be spun up using the docker standalone mode (i.e., using ipvlan or macvlan). In other cases I want to be able to use the power of swarm.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be nice if in the environments list, each individual agent can be added as an environment for a standalone docker instance on each machine. This way we can use all the nice features that portainer has to offer in standalone or swarm mode. Alternatively, a drop down button when adding a stack to indicate swarm or standalone mode (with choice of host) would be nice.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have used the create container feature but this is very limiting. Especially when we can use docker-compose from the cli to achieve the same thing I'm trying to achieve here. Manually creating containers and connecting them to other containers is very tedious work and the functionality for making it easier is already available in portainer if we can somehow unlock the standalone deployment mode.

Additional context

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[ndouba-malleum]

Is there any way to run portainer agent as a standalone client for docker?