First you’ll want to register your sidebar with register_sidebar(), if you haven’t done it already. You can find a basic example on the function’s documentation.
To render the sidebar area within your sidebar template file use dynamic_sidebar(). You can wrap that in if statement with is_active_sidebar(), if the sidebar should only be displayed when it has one or more widgets assigned to it. Have a look at the documentation for another example.
The theme developers handbook also has a nice chapter on sidebars.
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