Your development environment should ideally match the production environment as closely as possible. Though it will be more work, it will prevent weird issues from creeping into your code over time as developers try to engineer around differences in the test environment. I make the assumption you are running Kubernetes in prod, but the recommendation stands regardless.

If you don't want to run full k8s take a look at alternate API compatible distributions such as k3s, and remember that in a development install, you don't need to maintain the same reliability or integrity promises that you make in prod.