Automated cherry pick of #675: Stricter dependency/security review & update go version #720: update the go version to 1.21.3

[hakman]

Cherry pick of #675 #720 on release-1.23.

#675: Stricter dependency/security review & update go version
#720: update the go version to 1.21.3

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[hakman]

/release-note-none
/cc @cartermckinnon

[cartermckinnon]

Looks like some other dependency updates are needed for a clean bill of health, do you want to move that + the govulncheck workflow to a separate PR?

[hakman]

Looks like some other dependency updates are needed for a clean bill of health, do you want to move that + the govulncheck workflow to a separate PR?

Let me give it a try

[cartermckinnon]

thanks @hakman !

/lgtm
/approve

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