Run Perf tests using Jmeter GUI on Kubernetes cluster
In order to let someone to access the pods in your k8s cluster you need to expose the IP addresses and RMI ports to the outside world
It will not "include the network time in my perf test response times" because the slaves which are running on pods are doing the real job, the master only collects, aggregates and visualises the test results.
More information on JMeter Properties and ways of setting and overriding them: Apache JMeter Properties Customization Guide