Ask HN: Do you use Helm with your Kubernetes cluster?

I'm really curious as to how many people use Helm versus writing regular kubernetes configuration files. /mount (high horse) After trying my best (and succeeding, I like to think) to read up on and understand Kubernetes, writing resource configurations was valuable learning/trial-and-error experience, helping me to build intuition about the cluster and the concepts that make Kubernetes. I don't at all claim to be a Kubernetes expert but writing a kubernetes configuration file has been much easier for me than writing something like a CloudFormation configuration -- CloudFormation seems to give you enough expensive cloud-scale-branded rope to hang you and a few of your closest friends. I see Helm popping up from time to time, and every once in a while I take a look at the documentation and try to decide why I would do that instead of just writing the config file myself. While it's nice to be on my high horse, I wonder if knowing helm at that higher level is being considered "enough" by large swaths of people. This would be akin to knowing `apt-get` but not knowing the particulars of Makefiles/build processes, which I guess is the case for a lot of developers (and certainly myself at one time). /dismount Am I wasting my own time by not just going to using Helm straight?