oad">workloads</a> implementing a <a href="#service">service</a>.</p></dd><dt id="service">Service</dt><dd role="definition" aria-labelledby="service"><p>A delineated group of related behaviors within a <a href="#service-mesh">service mesh</a>. Services are identified using a <a href="#service-name">service name</a>, and Istio policies such as load balancing and routing are applied using these names. A service is typically materialized by one or more <a href="#service-endpoint">service endpoints</a>, and ma