diff --git a/extras/centos-ci.sh b/extras/centos-ci.sh
index 1a43f97c3..c89cb5575 100755
--- a/extras/centos-ci.sh
+++ b/extras/centos-ci.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # if anything fails, we'll abort
 set -e
 
-REQ_GO_VERSION='1.8.3'
+REQ_GO_VERSION='1.9.4'
 # install Go
 if ! yum -y install "golang >= $REQ_GO_VERSION"
 then
@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ yum -y install git mercurial bzr subversion gcc make
 curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/glusterfs-nighthly-master.repo http://artifacts.ci.centos.org/gluster/nightly/master.repo
 yum -y install epel-release
 yum -y install glusterfs-server
-yum -y install ShellCheck \
-    etcd
+yum -y install ShellCheck
 
 export GD2SRC=$GOPATH/src/github.com/gluster/glusterd2
 cd "$GD2SRC"
diff --git a/scripts/check-go.sh b/scripts/check-go.sh
index 4988996ca..d26d43c52 100755
--- a/scripts/check-go.sh
+++ b/scripts/check-go.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 REQ_GO_MAJOR_VERSION="1"
-REQ_GO_MINOR_VERSION="8"
+REQ_GO_MINOR_VERSION="9"
 
 REQ_GO_VERSION="$REQ_GO_MAJOR_VERSION.$REQ_GO_MINOR_VERSION"
 
diff --git a/scripts/install-reqs.sh b/scripts/install-reqs.sh
index 9ea947a52..6a6977ce7 100755
--- a/scripts/install-reqs.sh
+++ b/scripts/install-reqs.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ GOPATH=$(go env GOPATH)
 GOBINDIR=$GOPATH/bin
 
 install_dep() {
-  DEPVER="v0.3.1"
+  DEPVER="v0.5.0"
   DEPURL="https://github.com/golang/dep/releases/download/${DEPVER}/dep-linux-amd64"
   type dep >/dev/null 2>&1
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
@@ -39,5 +39,27 @@ install_gometalinter() {
   rm -f "$GOBINDIR/$LINTER_TARBALL"
 }
 
+install_etcd() {
+  ETCD_VER="v3.3.9"
+  ETCD_TARBALL="etcd-${ETCD_VER}-linux-amd64.tar.gz"
+  ETCD_URL="https://github.com/coreos/etcd/releases/download/${ETCD_VER}/${ETCD_TARBALL}"
+
+  type etcd >/dev/null 2>&1
+  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+    local version
+    version=$(etcd --version | awk '/^etcd Version/{print $3}')
+    if [[ $version == "$ETCD_VER" || $version >  $ETCD_VER ]]; then
+      echo "etcd ${ETCD_VER} or greater is already installed"
+      return
+    fi
+  fi
+
+  echo "Installing etcd. Version: ${ETCD_VER}"
+  curl -L -o "$GOBINDIR/$ETCD_TARBALL" $ETCD_URL
+  tar -zxf "$GOBINDIR/$ETCD_TARBALL" --overwrite --strip-components 1 -C "$GOBINDIR" --wildcards --no-anchored {etcd,etcdctl}
+  rm -f "$GOBINDIR/$ETCD_TARBALL"
+}
+
 install_dep
 install_gometalinter
+install_etcd