Note: To release a new Instana package, you must be a project member of the Instana package project on Pypi. Contact Peter Giacomo Lombardo to be added.

1. Before releasing, assure that tests have passed and that the package has also been manually validated in various stacks.
2. git checkout master && git pull --rebase && pip install -U twine
3. Bump the package version in setup.py
4. Create a draft Release on Github
5. python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel to create the whl file in ./dist/
6. Upload the package to Pypi with twine: twine upload dist/instana-<version>*
7. Validate the new release on https://pypi.org/project/instana/
8. Update Python documentation with latest changes: https://docs.instana.io/ecosystem/python/
9. Publish the draft release on Github