Same setup as above. Before deploying containers, you perform the following on the VM: create an AKS Ingress controller. Does this action meet the requirement to allow containers to access Azure Storage and Azure SQL via the subnet's service endpoint?

Creating an AKS Ingress controller does not meet the requirement. An Ingress controller manages external access to services within an AKS cluster, typically for HTTP/S routing. It does not configure network access from containers to external Azure services like Azure Storage or Azure SQL. To allow containers to access these services via a subnet's service endpoint, you would need to ensure the AKS cluster's subnet is configured with the appropriate service endpoints for Azure Storage and Azure SQL, and then configure the containers or their pods with the necessary connection strings and identities (e.g., Managed Identities for Azure Resources) to utilize these services securely.