SmarmySeaurchin8 we are looking into " https://github.com/conda/conda-pack " , allowing you to store an entire conda environment into a tar.gz file. With this feature, we could utilize the "base docker image" as a "base conda environment" basically deploying a fully stored conda env on the agent machine.
One could think of it as a poor wo/man's docker solution. That said it does have some merits like, bare-metal connection on Windows/Mac that is missing from the docker solution...