1. A method comprising: receiving, over a network at an adaptive publish/subscribe broker, a context-driven publication option from a publishing network device; presenting over the network the context-driven publication option to a subscribing network device; receiving over the network at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker a selection of a context-driven subscription from the subscribing network device; receiving, at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker, a publication configured for network management and operations; and filtering at the adaptive publish/subscribe broker the publication for the subscribing network device according to the selection of the context-driven subscription.