Comment by darkandbrooding

That is my preferred solution and I think it works great. I have persuaded a couple of coworkers to switch, but only a couple so far.

Containerized Postgres is a real win, but running OpenLDAP (+ custom schema) as a containerized application has measurably improved my quality of life. Kudos and great gratitude to the people behind https://github.com/osixia/docker-openldap