Enhancements to the native mode installer for a streamlined standalone experience

[s-akhtar-baig]

The existing installer helps deploy required services to run the InstructLab UI on a local machine in the native mode. However, there are potential areas of improvement to bring a more streamlined installer to the end users:

• Improve documentation
  • Add video(s) showing the output from a terminal in a step-by-step manner
• Display the configuration values used by the installer
• Provide an interactive mode which will allow users to override the default values
• Provide new flags to specify installation on either the host machine or in a container
  • --host: install services on the host machine, set to true by default
  • --container: install services in a container(s)
• Check if running in the default python virtual environment
  • If the default virtual environment doesn’t exist, then setup a new virtual environment with InstructLab specific name
  • Activate the default virtual environment
• Auto-detect ilab installation
  • If none found, then install and configure ilab
  • Provide an option to disable auto-install functionality
  • If auto-install is disabled and ilab is not installed, then display a user friendly error message

[vishnoianil]

Looks good @s-akhtar-baig . It would be good if we use a default name for the virtual environment and if it exist use the existing virtual environment and if not create new one. I am wondering if we can provide a flag --host (to install services directly on the host) and --docker (provide an option to install it through docker container).

[s-akhtar-baig]

Thanks, @vishnoianil! I have updated the description, can you please review when you get a chance?