diff --git a/DEVELOP.md b/DEVELOP.md
index c747c1fbe..7f3d90b86 100644
--- a/DEVELOP.md
+++ b/DEVELOP.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 The following dependencies are required for local development:
 
-- [Go](https://golang.org/dl/) >= 1.16.6
+- [Go](https://golang.org/dl/) >= 1.17.0
 - [Tilt](http://tilt.dev/) >= 0.20.8
 - Any of the local Kubernetes clusters supported by Tilt.
   We strongly recommend [minikube](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/learning-environment/minikube/) >= 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The minikube default is too low, adjust it like this:
 
     minikube ssh 'echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p'
 
-This should work on Linux, MacOS and possibly even Windows.
+This should work on Linux, MacOS and Windows.
 
 By default, the devnet is deployed to the `wormhole` namespace rather than `default`. This makes it easy to clean up the
 entire deployment by simply removing the namespace, which isn't possible with `default`. Change your default namespace
diff --git a/clients/eth/go.mod b/clients/eth/go.mod
index 756f0dc73..a960e98a8 100644
--- a/clients/eth/go.mod
+++ b/clients/eth/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/certusone/wormhole/clients/eth
 
-go 1.16
+go 1.17
 
 require (
 	github.com/certusone/wormhole/node v0.0.0-20210722131135-a191017d22d0
diff --git a/docs/operations.md b/docs/operations.md
index ac73e2157..db7e77c71 100644
--- a/docs/operations.md
+++ b/docs/operations.md
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ frequency). Light clients have much lower hardware requirements.
 For security reasons, we do not provide a pre-built binary. You need to check out the repo and build the
 guardiand binary from source. A Git repo is much harder to tamper with than release binaries.
 
-To build the Wormhole node, you need [Go](https://golang.org/dl/) >= 1.16.5.
+To build the Wormhole node, you need [Go](https://golang.org/dl/) >= 1.17.0.
 
 First, check out the version of the Wormhole repo that you want to deploy:
 
diff --git a/event_database/go.mod b/event_database/go.mod
index b391f23b4..be19a14cb 100644
--- a/event_database/go.mod
+++ b/event_database/go.mod
@@ -1,8 +1,30 @@
 module github.com/certusone/wormhole/events_database
 
-go 1.16
+go 1.17
 
 require (
 	cloud.google.com/go/bigtable v1.10.1
 	google.golang.org/api v0.48.0
 )
+
+require (
+	cloud.google.com/go v0.83.0 // indirect
+	github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20200121045136-8c9f03a8e57e // indirect
+	github.com/golang/protobuf v1.5.2 // indirect
+	github.com/google/go-cmp v0.5.6 // indirect
+	github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2 v2.0.5 // indirect
+	github.com/jstemmer/go-junit-report v0.9.1 // indirect
+	go.opencensus.io v0.23.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/lint v0.0.0-20210508222113-6edffad5e616 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/mod v0.4.2 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20210503060351-7fd8e65b6420 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.0.0-20210514164344-f6687ab2804c // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210603125802-9665404d3644 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/text v0.3.6 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/tools v0.1.2 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20200804184101-5ec99f83aff1 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/appengine v1.6.7 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/genproto v0.0.0-20210604141403-392c879c8b08 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/grpc v1.38.0 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.26.0 // indirect
+)
diff --git a/node/Dockerfile b/node/Dockerfile
index c8d3428d5..2cfc1b286 100644
--- a/node/Dockerfile
+++ b/node/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # syntax=docker.io/docker/dockerfile:experimental@sha256:de85b2f3a3e8a2f7fe48e8e84a65f6fdd5cd5183afa6412fff9caa6871649c44
-FROM docker.io/golang:1.15.6@sha256:de97bab9325c4c3904f8f7fec8eb469169a1d247bdc97dcab38c2c75cf4b4c5d
+FROM docker.io/golang:1.17.0@sha256:06e92e576fc7a7067a268d47727f3083c0a564331bfcbfdde633157fc91fb17d
 
 WORKDIR /app
 
diff --git a/node/go.mod b/node/go.mod
index da213abc2..f23fb48d8 100644
--- a/node/go.mod
+++ b/node/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/certusone/wormhole/node
 
-go 1.16
+go 1.17
 
 require (
 	cloud.google.com/go/bigtable v1.10.1
diff --git a/tools/go.mod b/tools/go.mod
index 9347ab89c..b3f7bc880 100644
--- a/tools/go.mod
+++ b/tools/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/certusone/wormhole/node/tools
 
-go 1.16
+go 1.17
 
 require (
 	github.com/bufbuild/buf v0.48.2