diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 238475840..fef556a73 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -90,10 +90,10 @@ The `llama` CLI makes it easy to work with the Llama Stack set of tools. Please
 * [CLI reference](docs/cli_reference.md)
     * Guide using `llama` CLI to work with Llama models (download, study prompts), and building/starting a Llama Stack distribution.
 * [Getting Started](docs/getting_started.md)
-    * Guide to build and run a Llama Stack server.
+    * Guide to start a Llama Stack server.
+    * [Jupyter notebook](./docs/getting_started.ipynb) to walk-through how to use simple text and vision inference llama_stack_client APIs
 * [Contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md)
 
-
 ## Llama Stack Client SDK
 
 |  **Language** |  **Client SDK** | **Package** |
@@ -104,3 +104,5 @@ The `llama` CLI makes it easy to work with the Llama Stack set of tools. Please
 | Kotlin | [llama-stack-client-kotlin](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-client-kotlin) |
 
 Check out our client SDKs for connecting to Llama Stack server in your preferred language, you can choose from [python](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-client-python), [node](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-client-node), [swift](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-client-swift), and [kotlin](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-client-kotlin) programming languages to quickly build your applications.
+
+You can find more example scripts with client SDKs to talk with the Llama Stack server in our [llama-stack-apps](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-apps/tree/main/examples) repo.
diff --git a/docs/getting_started.md b/docs/getting_started.md
index 6c8c902c0..3eebf8bbc 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started.md
+++ b/docs/getting_started.md
@@ -1,45 +1,9 @@
-# llama-stack
-
-[![PyPI - Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/llama-stack)](https://pypi.org/project/llama-stack/)
-[![Discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/1257833999603335178)](https://discord.gg/llama-stack)
-
-This repository contains the specifications and implementations of the APIs which are part of the Llama Stack.
-
-The Llama Stack defines and standardizes the building blocks needed to bring generative AI applications to market. These blocks span the entire development lifecycle: from model training and fine-tuning, through product evaluation, to invoking AI agents in production. Beyond definition, we're developing open-source versions and partnering with cloud providers, ensuring developers can assemble AI solutions using consistent, interlocking pieces across platforms. The ultimate goal is to accelerate innovation in the AI space.
-
-The Stack APIs are rapidly improving, but still very much work in progress and we invite feedback as well as direct contributions.
-
-
-## APIs
-
-The Llama Stack consists of the following set of APIs:
-
-- Inference
-- Safety
-- Memory
-- Agentic System
-- Evaluation
-- Post Training
-- Synthetic Data Generation
-- Reward Scoring
-
-Each of the APIs themselves is a collection of REST endpoints.
-
-## API Providers
-
-A Provider is what makes the API real -- they provide the actual implementation backing the API.
-
-As an example, for Inference, we could have the implementation be backed by open source libraries like `[ torch | vLLM | TensorRT ]` as possible options.
-
-A provider can also be just a pointer to a remote REST service -- for example, cloud providers or dedicated inference providers could serve these APIs.
-
-
-## Llama Stack Distribution
-
-A Distribution is where APIs and Providers are assembled together to provide a consistent whole to the end application developer. You can mix-and-match providers -- some could be backed by local code and some could be remote. As a hobbyist, you can serve a small model locally, but can choose a cloud provider for a large model. Regardless, the higher level APIs your app needs to work with don't need to change at all. You can even imagine moving across the server / mobile-device boundary as well always using the same uniform set of APIs for developing Generative AI applications.
+# Getting Started with Llama Stack
 
+This guide will walk you though the steps to get started on end-to-end flow for LlamaStack. This guide mainly focuses on getting started with building a LlamaStack distribution, and starting up a LlamaStack server. Please see our [documentations](../README.md) on what you can do with Llama Stack, and [llama-stack-apps](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-apps/tree/main) on examples apps built with Llama Stack.
 
 ## Installation
+The `llama` CLI tool helps you setup and use the Llama toolchain & agentic systems. It should be available on your path after installing the `llama-stack` package.
 
 You can install this repository as a [package](https://pypi.org/project/llama-stack/) with `pip install llama-stack`
 
@@ -57,26 +21,40 @@ cd llama-stack
 $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/pip install -e .
 ```
 
-# Getting Started
+For what you can do with the Llama CLI, please refer to [CLI Reference](./cli_reference.md).
 
-The `llama` CLI tool helps you setup and use the Llama toolchain & agentic systems. It should be available on your path after installing the `llama-stack` package.
+## Quick Starting Llama Stack Server
 
-This guides allows you to quickly get started with building and running a Llama Stack server in < 5 minutes!
+#### Starting up server via docker
 
-You may also checkout this [notebook](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack/blob/main/docs/getting_started.ipynb) for trying out out demo scripts.
+We provide 2 pre-built Docker image of Llama Stack distribution, which can be found in the following links.
+- [llamastack-local-gpu](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/llamastack/llamastack-local-gpu/general)
+  - This is a packaged version with our local meta-reference implementations, where you will be running inference locally with downloaded Llama model checkpoints.
+- [llamastack-local-cpu](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/llamastack/llamastack-local-cpu/general)
+   - This is a lite version with remote inference where you can hook up to your favourite remote inference framework (e.g. ollama, fireworks, together, tgi) for running inference without GPU.
 
-## Quick Cheatsheet
-
-#### Via docker
+> [!NOTE]
+> For GPU inference, you need to set these environment variables for specifying local directory containing your model checkpoints, and enable GPU inference to start running docker container.
 ```
-docker run -it -p 5000:5000 -v ~/.llama:/root/.llama --gpus=all llamastack-local-gpu
+export LLAMA_CHECKPOINT_DIR=~/.llama
 ```
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > `~/.llama` should be the path containing downloaded weights of Llama models.
 
 
-#### Via conda
+To download and start running a pre-built docker container, you may use the following commands:
+
+```
+docker run -it -p 5000:5000 -v ~/.llama:/root/.llama --gpus=all llamastack/llamastack-local-gpu
+```
+
+> [!TIP]
+> Pro Tip: We may use `docker compose up` for starting up a distribution with remote providers (e.g. TGI) using [llamastack-local-cpu](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/llamastack/llamastack-local-cpu/general). You can checkout [these scripts](../llama_stack/distribution/docker/README.md) to help you get started.
+
+#### Build->Configure->Run Llama Stack server via conda
+You may also build a LlamaStack distribution from scratch, configure it, and start running the distribution. This is useful for developing on LlamaStack.
+
 **`llama stack build`**
 - You'll be prompted to enter build information interactively.
 ```
@@ -182,6 +160,7 @@ INFO:     Application startup complete.
 INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://[::]:5000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
 ```
 
+## Building a Distribution
 
 ## Step 1. Build
 In the following steps, imagine we'll be working with a `Meta-Llama3.1-8B-Instruct` model. We will name our build `8b-instruct` to help us remember the config. We will start build our distribution (in the form of a Conda environment, or Docker image). In this step, we will specify:
@@ -445,4 +424,7 @@ Similarly you can test safety (if you configured llama-guard and/or prompt-guard
 python -m llama_stack.apis.safety.client localhost 5000
 ```
 
+
+Check out our client SDKs for connecting to Llama Stack server in your preferred language, you can choose from [python](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-client-python), [node](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-client-node), [swift](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-client-swift), and [kotlin](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-client-kotlin) programming languages to quickly build your applications.
+
 You can find more example scripts with client SDKs to talk with the Llama Stack server in our [llama-stack-apps](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-stack-apps/tree/main/examples) repo.
diff --git a/llama_stack/cli/download.py b/llama_stack/cli/download.py
index a1495cbf0..4a0f88aaa 100644
--- a/llama_stack/cli/download.py
+++ b/llama_stack/cli/download.py
@@ -152,27 +152,29 @@ def run_download_cmd(args: argparse.Namespace, parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
         parser.error("Please provide a model id")
         return
 
-    prompt_guard = prompt_guard_model_sku()
-    if args.model_id == prompt_guard.model_id:
-        model = prompt_guard
-        info = prompt_guard_download_info()
-    else:
-        model = resolve_model(args.model_id)
-        if model is None:
-            parser.error(f"Model {args.model_id} not found")
-            return
-        info = llama_meta_net_info(model)
+    # Check if model_id is a comma-separated list
+    model_ids = [model_id.strip() for model_id in args.model_id.split(",")]
 
-    if args.source == "huggingface":
-        _hf_download(model, args.hf_token, args.ignore_patterns, parser)
-    else:
-        meta_url = args.meta_url
-        if not meta_url:
-            meta_url = input(
-                "Please provide the signed URL you received via email after visiting https://www.llama.com/llama-downloads/ (e.g., https://llama3-1.llamameta.net/*?Policy...): "
+    prompt_guard = prompt_guard_model_sku()
+    for model_id in model_ids:
+        if model_id == prompt_guard.model_id:
+            model = prompt_guard
+            info = prompt_guard_download_info()
+        else:
+            model = resolve_model(model_id)
+            if model is None:
+                parser.error(f"Model {model_id} not found")
+                continue
+            info = llama_meta_net_info(model)
+
+        if args.source == "huggingface":
+            _hf_download(model, args.hf_token, args.ignore_patterns, parser)
+        else:
+            meta_url = args.meta_url or input(
+                f"Please provide the signed URL for model {model_id} you received via email after visiting https://www.llama.com/llama-downloads/ (e.g., https://llama3-1.llamameta.net/*?Policy...): "
             )
-            assert meta_url is not None and "llamameta.net" in meta_url
-        _meta_download(model, meta_url, info)
+            assert "llamameta.net" in meta_url
+            _meta_download(model, meta_url, info)
 
 
 class ModelEntry(BaseModel):
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-bedrock-conda-example-build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-bedrock-conda-example-build.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-bedrock-conda-example-build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-bedrock-conda-example-build.yaml
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-cpu/build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-cpu-docker-build.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-cpu/build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-cpu-docker-build.yaml
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-databricks-build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-databricks-build.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-databricks-build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-databricks-build.yaml
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-fireworks-build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-fireworks-build.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-fireworks-build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-fireworks-build.yaml
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-gpu-docker-build.yaml
similarity index 87%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-gpu-docker-build.yaml
index f10461256..01af1021e 100644
--- a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-build.yaml
+++ b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-gpu-docker-build.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: local
+name: local-gpu
 distribution_spec:
   description: Use code from `llama_stack` itself to serve all llama stack APIs
   providers:
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ distribution_spec:
     safety: meta-reference
     agents: meta-reference
     telemetry: meta-reference
-image_type: conda
+image_type: docker
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-hf-endpoint-build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-hf-endpoint-build.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-hf-endpoint-build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-hf-endpoint-build.yaml
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-hf-serverless-build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-hf-serverless-build.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-hf-serverless-build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-hf-serverless-build.yaml
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-ollama-build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-ollama-build.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-ollama-build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-ollama-build.yaml
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-tgi-build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-tgi-build.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-tgi-build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-tgi-build.yaml
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-gpu/build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-tgi-chroma-docker-build.yaml
similarity index 53%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-gpu/build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-tgi-chroma-docker-build.yaml
index 11d1ac01c..30715c551 100644
--- a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-gpu/build.yaml
+++ b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-tgi-chroma-docker-build.yaml
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-name: local-gpu
+name: local-tgi-chroma
 distribution_spec:
-  description: local meta reference
+  description: remote tgi inference + chromadb memory
   docker_image: null
   providers:
-    inference: meta-reference
+    inference: remote::tgi
     safety: meta-reference
     agents: meta-reference
-    memory: meta-reference
+    memory: remote::chromadb
     telemetry: meta-reference
 image_type: docker
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-together-build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-together-build.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-together-build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-together-build.yaml
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-vllm-build.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-vllm-build.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/local-vllm-build.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/build_configs/local-vllm-build.yaml
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-gpu/run.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/run_configs/local-run.yaml
similarity index 71%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-gpu/run.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/run_configs/local-run.yaml
index 8fb02711b..7abf2b4dc 100644
--- a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-gpu/run.yaml
+++ b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/run_configs/local-run.yaml
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 version: '2'
-built_at: '2024-10-08T17:42:33.690666'
-image_name: local-gpu
-docker_image: local-gpu
-conda_env: null
+built_at: '2024-10-08T17:40:45.325529'
+image_name: local
+docker_image: null
+conda_env: local
 apis:
-- memory
-- inference
-- agents
 - shields
-- safety
+- agents
 - models
+- memory
 - memory_banks
+- inference
+- safety
 providers:
   inference:
   - provider_id: meta-reference
@@ -25,8 +25,13 @@ providers:
   - provider_id: meta-reference
     provider_type: meta-reference
     config:
-      llama_guard_shield: null
-      prompt_guard_shield: null
+      llama_guard_shield:
+        model: Llama-Guard-3-1B
+        excluded_categories: []
+        disable_input_check: false
+        disable_output_check: false
+      prompt_guard_shield:
+        model: Prompt-Guard-86M
   memory:
   - provider_id: meta-reference
     provider_type: meta-reference
diff --git a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-cpu/run.yaml b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/run_configs/local-tgi-run.yaml
similarity index 60%
rename from llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-cpu/run.yaml
rename to llama_stack/distribution/templates/run_configs/local-tgi-run.yaml
index 6b107d972..ec3af742c 100644
--- a/llama_stack/distribution/templates/docker/llamastack-local-cpu/run.yaml
+++ b/llama_stack/distribution/templates/run_configs/local-tgi-run.yaml
@@ -1,29 +1,33 @@
 version: '2'
-built_at: '2024-10-08T17:42:07.505267'
-image_name: local-cpu
-docker_image: local-cpu
-conda_env: null
+built_at: '2024-10-08T17:40:45.325529'
+image_name: local
+docker_image: null
+conda_env: local
 apis:
+- shields
 - agents
-- inference
 - models
 - memory
-- safety
-- shields
 - memory_banks
+- inference
+- safety
 providers:
   inference:
-  - provider_id: remote::ollama
-    provider_type: remote::ollama
+  - provider_id: tgi0
+    provider_type: remote::tgi
     config:
-      host: localhost
-      port: 6000
+      url: http://127.0.0.1:5009
   safety:
   - provider_id: meta-reference
     provider_type: meta-reference
     config:
-      llama_guard_shield: null
-      prompt_guard_shield: null
+      llama_guard_shield:
+        model: Llama-Guard-3-1B
+        excluded_categories: []
+        disable_input_check: false
+        disable_output_check: false
+      prompt_guard_shield:
+        model: Prompt-Guard-86M
   memory:
   - provider_id: meta-reference
     provider_type: meta-reference