I also use MetalLB and Rook. Can't say enough good things about them.

I have also used Kube-Router (https://kube-router.io - Digital Ocean's non Virtual networking plugin for bare metal environments; it puts your containers on your physical network, which is freaking neat) and loved that, but since I started deploying kubernetes with Rancher I've found for dev clusters I'm not caring about what networking is used. (currently running Canal).

Not sure what we will decide on when we go to production.