Since RHEL 8.6 includes golang-1.17.7, I built that also for EPEL7
(based on the CentOS 8-Stream source package). It is now in
epel-testing and I expect it to be promoted to epel in about a week's
time. Please test and give Karma at
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-f64d777807
Dave