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@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Current scope of the project is to work on following personas:
 
 The technical overview and developer docs for getting started can be found [here](docs/development.md).
 
+The UI can be installed and run locally by following the instruction [here](installers/podman/README.md).
+
 ## Contributing
 
 If you have suggestions for how InstructLab UI can be improved, please open an [issue](https://github.com/instructlab/ui/issues) and tag it with `user suggested` label. We'd love all and any contributions.
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+# Local Install of InstructLab UI
+
+Instructions on how to install the InstructLab UI on your local development machine such as a MacBook or Linux Machine.
+
+## Installation Prerequisites
+
+To run the UI locally `ilab-ui-native-installer.sh` needs to be downloaded:
+
+```bash
+mkdir ui-local
+cd ui-local
+curl -o ilab-ui-native-installer.sh -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/instructlab/ui/refs/heads/main/installers/podman/ilab-ui-native-installer.sh
+chmod a+x ilab-ui-native-installer.sh
+```
+
+The UI has two pre-requisites: Podman and InstructLab.
+
+To install these on a Mac run:
+
+```bash
+brew install podman
+podman machine init
+podman machine start
+```
+
+On a Linux (Fedora) run:
+
+```bash
+dnf install podman
+podman machine init
+podman machine start
+```
+
+For Instructlab installation and initalization run:
+
+```bash
+python3.11 -m venv venv
+source ./venv/bin/activate
+pip install instructlab
+ilab config init --non-interactive
+```
+
+Developers of Instructlab can use the virtual environments they already have on their systems.
+
+## Starting the UI
+
+Once the ilab is set up, run `ilab-ui-native-installer.sh` with the username and password of your preference to start the UI up.
+
+```bash
+./ilab-ui-native-installer.sh install --username admin --password passw0rd!
+```
+
+UI Installer does the following:
+
+- Check if InstructLab is set up on the host.
+- Extract the taxonomy repository directory path from the InstructLab configuration file
+- Download and install the ilab-apiserver binary. It allows the UI to communicate actions to InstructLab and retrieve the results of the commands.
+- Generates the secret.yaml file to fill in all the user-provided information and the discovered information securely.
+- Download the InstructLab deployment YAML and update the YAML with the required parameters.
+- Deploy the secrets and the deployment YAML on the Podman, to set up the UI.
+
+Once the installation is successfully completed, you can log in to the UI at `http://localhost:3000` with the username and password provided to the installer.
+
+A taxonomy is needed to start the UI. Without providing `--taxonomy-dir` to the script the default taxonomy used is the upstream taxonony in `~/.local/share/instructlab/taxonomy`.
+
+The custom empty taxonomy can be used. The taxonomy must be an initialized git repository.
+
+```bash
+mkdir /home/user/ui-local/taxonomy
+cd /home/user/ui-local/taxonomy
+git config --global init.defaultBranch main
+```
+
+```bash
+./ilab-ui-native-installer.sh install --username admin --password passw0rd! --taxonomy-dir /home/user/taxonomy
+Cheking if ilab (InstructLab CLI) is installed natively...
+
+ilab is natively installed on the host.
+
+NOTE: If you are using python virtual environment for InstructLab setup, you can use --python-venv-dir option to skip the discovery.
+
+Seems like ilab is configured on the host. Discover the taxonomy path...
+
+Discovering ilab configured taxonomy on the host...
+
+ilab configured taxonomy repo is detected under the directory - /home/user/.local/share/instructlab/taxonomy
+
+and it's not same as provided by the user - /home/user/ui-local/taxonomy
+
+It's recommended to use the taxonomy repo configured for the ilab CLI.
+
+In case you do not choose ilab configured taxonomy, data generation and fine tune features will not work.
+
+But skill and knowledge contribution features should work as expected.
+
+Please choose the taxonomy repo you would like to use with InstructLab UI:
+1. ilab Taxonomy - /home/user/.local/share/instructlab/taxonomy
+2. Provided Taxonomy - /home/user/ui-local/taxonomy
+Please choose the taxonomy repo you would like to use with InstructLab UI? (1/2): 2
+...
+```
+
+## Stopping the UI
+
+To stop the UI, the `uninstall` command can be used with the `ilab-ui-native-installer.sh` script.
+
+```bash
+./ilab-ui-native-installer.sh uninstall
+Are you sure you want to uninstall the InstructLab UI stack? (yes/no): yes
+```