Techniques are disclosed for creating a workspace. A data processing system receives a request to create a workspace to implement a portion of a model deployed in a production environment. One or more data objects and associated metadata thereof relevant to the portion of the model, and an execution venue for the workspace are obtained. A set of instructions is generated for executing the one or more data objects and the associated metadata in the workspace. The workspace is created within the execution venue by instantiating the portion of the model, the one or more data objects, and the associated metadata in the workspace. The portion of the model in the workspace is processed using the one or more data objects and the associated metadata in accordance with the set of instructions, and the production environment is updated by the data processing system based on the processing.