K3s uses their own loadbalancer, so yes. It will add extra hops to any of your services if you care about sub-ms latency. I looked at metalLB, and didn't reall

K3s uses their own loadbalancer, so yes. It will add extra hops to any of your services if you care about sub-ms latency. I looked at metalLB, and didn't really fit with what we wanted to do, so YMMV. It's pretty limited unless you control a lot about your IP space.