A method for deploying and instantiating a Management and Orchestration (MANO) instance of a tenant in a data communication network having a Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI), wherein a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) provides a centralized MANO framework that manages the NFVI and that orchestrates allocation of resources needed by Network Services (NSs) and/or Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) configured in the data communication network, includes requesting, by the tenant, provisioning of the MANO instance. The tenant negotiates with the CSP one or more Management Level Agreements (MLAs) which determine scope of autonomy of the tenant over the MANO instance. The tenant receives an allocation of resources of the NFVI and the MANO instance for being employed by the tenant to implement policies of the tenant independently from the centralized MANO framework provided by the CSP.