diff --git a/tools/gce/create_linux_performance_worker.sh b/tools/gce/create_linux_performance_worker.sh
index 9b85f7b4374..7f53732c05d 100755
--- a/tools/gce/create_linux_performance_worker.sh
+++ b/tools/gce/create_linux_performance_worker.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ gcloud compute instances create $INSTANCE_NAME \
     --zone "$ZONE" \
     --machine-type $MACHINE_TYPE \
     --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud \
-    --image-family ubuntu-1610 \
+    --image-family ubuntu-1704 \
     --boot-disk-size 300 \
     --scopes https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigquery