[apenwarr]

(I wrote the article.) You're not that unusual, we just haven’t had time to address that use case directly yet. I expect an ecosystem of MSPs may arise to offer physical boxes, or some such thing, since the tailscale client is open source. (Or you could buy a Synology with tailscale on it I suppose!)

Many companies just run tailscale in a VM to replace their physical VPN concentrator boxes.