> Essentially I'd like to build a docker image of code from a repository, and deploy and run it

Presumably, you're running it based on some input. Jobs are the right paradigm if this input is periodic (for example, processing a batch of items in S3 every few hours).

Otherwise, you may want to consider a Worker: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/docs/concepts/services/#wo... which can be connected to an SQS queue and activated by publishing messages to the queue.

Lifecycle management is a matter of using the delete commands:

    svc delete
    job delete
    env delete
    app delete

To de-provision.

https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/docs/commands/app-delete/

Hope that helps!