We usually change SSH port to different one for some security. Like when provisioning server from official Ubuntu AMI, connecting to a server fails using same ssh_config without specifying port 22 explicitly.

the following quick hack task adds Port line on /etc/ssh/sshd_config then restart sshd. This works on Ubuntu 14.04 trusty. Change ensure_cmd for your system. Note that this adds listening port, not replacing port. More modification on sshd_config will be done via provisioning tool which run after this simple task, so this task only does simple one.

I recommend to make this task runs before deploy task.

task :ensure_ssh_port do
  on roles(:app) do |srv|
    user = srv.ssh_options[:user]
    port = srv.ssh_options[:port] || Net::SSH::Config.for(srv.to_s)[:port]
    unless port
      puts "ensure_ssh_port(#{srv}, #{port}): skip"
      next
    end

    puts "ensure_ssh_port(#{srv}, #{port}): start"

    user_opt = user ? "#{user}@" : ""

    if system(*%W(ssh -T -p #{port} #{user_opt}#{srv} true), err: File::NULL, out: File::NULL)
      puts "ensure_ssh_port(#{srv}, #{port}): ok"
      execute "echo '#{srv} port ensured'"
      next
    end

    unless system(*%W(ssh -T -p 22 #{user_opt}#{srv} true), err: File::NULL, out: File::NULL)
      abort "Couldn't connect #{user_opt}#{srv} with both port 22 and #{port}"
    end

    puts "ensure_ssh_port(#{srv}, #{port}): port 22 ok, changing sshd"

    ensure_cmd = "ssh -T -p 22 #{user_opt}#{srv} \"sudo sh -c 'echo Port #{port} >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config && service ssh restart'\""
    puts "ensure_ssh_port(#{srv}, #{port}): $ #{ensure_cmd}"
    system(ensure_cmd) or raise 'failed to ensure'

    execute "echo '#{srv} port ensured'"
  end
end