Does anybody use `kubectl apply –kustomize`? [LWN.net]

Thanks for the useful article and the comments.

k8s neophyte here, courtesy of “GitOps and Kubernetes: Continuous Deployment [..]” (Yuen, Matyushentsev, et al) a few years ago.

At one point the book pitched –kustomize as an alternative to at least some of the functionality provided by Helm. I was pressed for time so skipped the Helm content and stuck with the –kustomize content since hey, it’s right there in `kubectl`.

Does –kustomize obviate the need for Helm? Is it widely used?