Hello and welcome to the "Getting Started with Service Mesh" workshop. Service mesh is a powerful pattern for managing communication between microservices in a distributed system. It decouples networking concerns from application code, making developing, deploying, and managing your services more manageable. As a developer, you might be familiar with some of these networking functionalities many frameworks toolkits provide. However, adopting a service mesh can unlock even more capabilities and improve your applications' security, reliability, and observability.