cherry pick of #740 update otel-go dependency to v0.46.0 & #741 Update the go version to 1.21.4

[kmala]

What type of PR is this?

/kind cleanup

What this PR does / why we need it:

cherry pick of #741 and #740 on release-1.27

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #

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Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?:

- Updated GO version to  1.21.4 to fix CVE-2023-45283 
- Updated otel go dependency to fix CVE-2023-47108

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