diff --git a/app/components/container/container.html b/app/components/container/container.html
index 5d9b16401..1d2746dd0 100644
--- a/app/components/container/container.html
+++ b/app/components/container/container.html
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
                 ng-click="unpause()"
                 ng-show="container.State.Running && container.State.Paused">Unpause
         </button>
+        <button class="btn btn-primary"
+                ng-click="commit()"
+                ng-show="container.State.Running && !container.State.Paused">Commit
+        </button>
     </div>
 
     <table class="table table-striped">
diff --git a/app/components/container/containerController.js b/app/components/container/containerController.js
index e79ea8c77..8739f58fd 100644
--- a/app/components/container/containerController.js
+++ b/app/components/container/containerController.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 angular.module('container', [])
-.controller('ContainerController', ['$scope', '$routeParams', '$location', 'Container', 'Messages', 'ViewSpinner',
-function($scope, $routeParams, $location, Container, Messages, ViewSpinner) {
+.controller('ContainerController', ['$scope', '$routeParams', '$location', 'Container', 'ContainerCommit', 'Messages', 'ViewSpinner',
+function($scope, $routeParams, $location, Container, ContainerCommit, Messages, ViewSpinner) {
     $scope.changes = [];
     $scope.edit = false;
 
@@ -58,6 +58,16 @@ function($scope, $routeParams, $location, Container, Messages, ViewSpinner) {
         });
     };
 
+    $scope.commit =  function() {
+        ViewSpinner.spin();
+        ContainerCommit.commit({id: $routeParams.id, repo: $scope.container.Config.Image}, function(d) {
+            update();
+            Messages.send("Container commited", $routeParams.id);
+        }, function(e) {
+            update();
+            Messages.error("Failure", "Container failed to commit." + e.data);
+        });
+    };
     $scope.pause = function() {
         ViewSpinner.spin();
         Container.pause({id: $routeParams.id}, function(d) {
diff --git a/app/shared/services.js b/app/shared/services.js
index 5ed45934b..ad5f0de52 100644
--- a/app/shared/services.js
+++ b/app/shared/services.js
@@ -20,6 +20,23 @@ angular.module('dockerui.services', ['ngResource'])
             rename: {method: 'POST', params: {id: '@id', action: 'rename'}, isArray: false}
         });
     })
+    .factory('ContainerCommit', function ($resource, $http, Settings) {
+        'use strict';
+        return {
+            commit: function (params, callback) {
+                   $http({
+                       method: 'POST',
+                       url: Settings.url + '/commit',
+                       params: {
+                           'container': params.id,
+                           'repo': params.repo
+                       }
+                   }).success(callback).error(function (data, status, headers, config) {
+                       console.log(error, data);
+                   });
+            }
+        };
+    })
     .factory('ContainerLogs', function ($resource, $http, Settings) {
         'use strict';
         return {