diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c0fde340d7..3e4c5a5691 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2135,18 +2135,6 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6d9d8664cf849d7d0f3114a3a387d2f5e4303176d746d5a951aaddc66dfe9240"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "dns-lookup"
-version = "2.0.4"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e5766087c2235fec47fafa4cfecc81e494ee679d0fd4a59887ea0919bfb0e4fc"
-dependencies = [
- "cfg-if",
- "libc",
- "socket2 0.5.7",
- "windows-sys 0.48.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "docker_credential"
 version = "1.3.1"
@@ -3162,7 +3150,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "httpdate",
  "itoa 1.0.11",
  "pin-project-lite 0.2.14",
- "socket2 0.5.7",
+ "socket2 0.4.10",
  "tokio",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
@@ -6591,55 +6579,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "test-case-core",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "testcontainers"
-version = "0.16.7"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "69d47265a44d1035a322691cf0a6cc227d79b62ef86ffb0dbc204b394fee3d07"
-dependencies = [
- "async-trait",
- "bollard",
- "bollard-stubs",
- "dirs 5.0.1",
- "dns-lookup",
- "docker_credential",
- "futures",
- "log",
- "parse-display",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
- "serde_with 3.8.1",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-util 0.7.11",
- "url",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "testcontainers"
-version = "0.17.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "025e0ac563d543e0354d984540e749859a83dbe5c0afb8d458dc48d91cef2d6a"
-dependencies = [
- "async-trait",
- "bollard",
- "bollard-stubs",
- "bytes",
- "dirs 5.0.1",
- "docker_credential",
- "futures",
- "log",
- "memchr",
- "parse-display",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
- "serde_with 3.8.1",
- "thiserror",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util 0.7.11",
- "url",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "testcontainers"
 version = "0.18.0"
@@ -7343,7 +7282,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "socket2 0.5.7",
  "tempfile",
  "test-case",
- "testcontainers 0.16.7",
+ "testcontainers",
  "thiserror",
  "tide",
  "tokio",
@@ -7383,7 +7322,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serial_test",
  "simd-json",
- "testcontainers 0.17.0",
+ "testcontainers",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tremor-common",
@@ -7446,7 +7385,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "simd-json-derive",
  "tempfile",
  "test-case",
- "testcontainers 0.18.0",
+ "testcontainers",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tonic",
diff --git a/tremor-connectors-aws/Cargo.toml b/tremor-connectors-aws/Cargo.toml
index ced6033397..58c9512f98 100644
--- a/tremor-connectors-aws/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tremor-connectors-aws/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ aws-credential-types = { version = "1", default-features = false }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 rand = { version = "0.8", default-features = false }
-testcontainers = { version = "0.17", default-features = false }
+testcontainers = { version = "0.18", default-features = false }
 serial_test = { version = "3.0", default-features = false }
 bytes = { version = "1.1", default-features = true }
 tremor-connectors-test-helpers = { path = "../tremor-connectors-test-helpers", version = "0.13.0-rc.28" }
diff --git a/tremor-connectors/Cargo.toml b/tremor-connectors/Cargo.toml
index f76010abfc..94e84d4aef 100644
--- a/tremor-connectors/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tremor-connectors/Cargo.toml
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ socket2 = { version = "0.5", optional = true, default-features = false }
 serde_yaml = { version = "0.9", default-features = false }
 test-case = "3.3"
 proptest = "1.5"
-testcontainers = "0.16.7"
+testcontainers = "0.18.0"
 serial_test = "3.0"
 http-types = "2.0"
 bytes = "1.0"